Available April 2024 from UofM Press
Tag Archives: Canadian food history
Rhymes with ‘Truck’
“Rhymes with ‘Truck’: The Manitoba Food History Project” has been published in Oral History Review. This article provides an overview of the Manitoba Food History Project, outlining its incorporation of students into the research and publication process and its use of a food truck as a mobile cooking and recording studio. It offers an examination ofContinue reading “Rhymes with ‘Truck’”
Study on the Manitoba Food History Truck!
2 weeks. 3 credit hours. No prerequisites. 16-30 June 2022 Sign up now for this exciting University of Winnipeg field course! HIST-3504 The Manitoba Food History Truck Registration now open at http://www.uwinnipeg.ca
Canadian Food History Symposium 2015
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”
Why I don’t cook… much
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.
History of Canadian Snack Foods
PROJECT: “Snack Foods: A Canadian Social History, 1945-2010.”
Janis Thiessen 