What's to Eat? - Entrées in Canadian Food History by Nathalie Cooke

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  • ISBN 10 0773535705
  • ISBN 13 9780773535701
  • Published Sep 01 2009
  • Format Hardcover
  • Page Count 320
  • Language English
  • Edition First Edition
  • Countries Canada
  • Publisher McGill-Queen's University Press

Publishers Text

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.

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