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Title

What's to eat? : entrées in Canadian food history / edited by Nathalie Cooke.

Publication

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2009.

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Additional Authors

Cooke, Nathalie

Description

x, 310 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

'What's to Eat?' serves up 12 preliminary answers to initiate and nourish the discussion of food in Canada. The contributors look at Canada's distinctive foodways, from the shared perspective of the current moment.

Subject

• Geschichte
• Food habits > Canada > History
• Cooking, Canadian > History
• Habitudes alimentaires > Canada > Histoire
• Cuisine canadienne > Histoire
• Essgewohnheit
• Ernährung
• Kochen
• Canada > Social life and customs
• Canada > Moeurs et coutumes
• Kanada

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references: p. [271]-300.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Illustrations; Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1 Eating Canadian: What Do and Did We Eat? 1 Curiosity into Edibility: The Taste of New France / Victoria Dickenson; 2 Stories of Aboriginal Food, Territory, and Health / Margery Fee; 3 A Cargo of Cocoa: Chocolates Early History in Canada / Catherine MacPherson; 4 The Long History of the Tourtire of Quebecs Lac-St-Jean / Jean-Pierre Lemasson; 5 Talking Turkey: Thanksgiving in Canada and the United States / Andrew Smith and Shelley Boyd; 6 Grain Elevated: The Fall and Rise of Red Fife Wheat / Sarah Musgrave Part 2 What Do Our Food Stories Tell Us about Who We Are or Were? 7 There is a Canadian cuisine, and it is unique in all the world: Crafting National Food Culture during the Long 1960s / Rhona Richman Kenneally; 8 Regional Differences in the Canadian Daily Meal? Cookbooks Answer the Question / Elizabeth Driver; 9 The Cookbooks Quebecers Prefer: More than Just Recipes / Marie Marquis; 10 Home Cooking: The Stories Canadian Cookbooks Tell / Nathalie Cooke; 11 Eating Chinese in Canada and across the World / Sneja Gunew 12 Dishing Dad: How to Cook a Husband and Other Metaphorical Recipes / Gary Draper Bibliography; Contributors; Index.

ISBN

• 9780773535701 (bound)
• 0773535705 (bound)
• 9780773535718 (pbk.)
• 0773535713 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2010285022

OCLC

317353338

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library