UPDATE: Audio recordings of the five presentations at this event are available online: Andrea Guimond on poverty and diet; Daniel Pastuck on miso and soy; Madison Connolly on wine and Canadian identity; Emily Nikkel on hog farming in Manitoba; and Aisha Entz on the decline of First Nations peoples since European contact. You’re invited toContinue reading “Canadian Food History Symposium 2015”
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Why I don’t cook… much
Food History at the University of Winnipeg
In fall, I’ll be teaching a new 3rd year course on the History of Food at the University of Winnipeg.
Canadian Food History Symposium, 26 October 2013
UPDATE: Audio recordings of the three presentations at this event are available online. THE UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY presents the second annual CANADIAN FOOD HISTORY SYMPOSIUM featuring Dr. Ian Mosby Department of History, University of Guelph
Canadian Food History Symposium, 4 April 2013
In what I hope to make a regular event at the University of Winnipeg Department of History, honours and graduate students enrolled in my Advanced Studies in Canadian Social History class recently presented brief summaries of their original research in Canadian food history.
Share your snack food stories!
UPDATE: This research is now completed, and I am no longer conducting interviews. Thanks to all for sharing your stories! My book, Snacks: A Canadian Food History, is available from University of Manitoba Press.
Old Dutch “Kids’ Bids”: searching for past contestants
UPDATE: This research is now completed, and I am no longer conducting interviews. Thanks to all for sharing your stories! My book, Snacks: A Canadian Food History, is now available from University of Manitoba Press.
History of Canadian Snack Foods
PROJECT: “Snack Foods: A Canadian Social History, 1945-2010.”
Janis Thiessen 