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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cooke, Nathalie, Author.

Contributor:

Cooke, Nathalie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food habits--Canada--History.

Food habits.

Cooking, Canadian--History.

Cooking, Canadian.

Canada--Social life and customs.

Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How we as Canadians procure, produce, cook, consume, and think about food creates our cuisine, and our nation of immigrant traditions has produced a distinctive and evolving repertoire that is neither hodgepodge nor smorgasbord. Contributors, who come from the diverse worlds of universities, museums, the media, and gastronomy, look at Canada's distinctive foodways from the shared perspective of the current moment. Individual chapters explore food items and choices, from those made by Canada's First Nations and early settlers to those made today. Other contributions describe the ways in which foods enjoyed by early Canadians have found their way back onto Canadian tables in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Authors emphasize the expressive potential of food practices and food texts; cookbooks are more than books to be read and used in the kitchen, they are also documents that convey valuable social and historical information.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes index.

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

ISBN:

1-282-86762-8

9786612867620

0-7735-7717-3

OCLC:

1320970193