False Bacon Of Hope: 150 Years Of Canadian Culinary History

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From Smithsonian Magazine, May 25:

New Exhibition Serves Up 150 Years of Canadian Culinary History

‘Mixed Messages: Making too Shaping Culinary Culture inwards Canada’ features cookbooks, photos too artifacts from the 1820s to the 1960s

Poutine. Maple syrup. Ketchup chips. All autumn nether the banner of “Canadian” food.

But a novel exhibition at the University of Toronto’s Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library offers a to a greater extent than nuanced lead maintain on simply what just encompasses Canadian cuisine.

Using rare cookbooks, photos too artifacts, “Mixed Messages: Making too Shaping Culinary Culture inwards Canada,” which opened Tuesday too volition run through August 17, whips upwards the floor of some 150 years of Canada’s historical plates.

Deconstructing the thought of Canadian identity is at the middle of the exhibition, says co-curator Irina Mihalache, who is an assistant professor of museum studies at the university. “What nosotros wanted to range is rather than tell this is what Canadian culinary civilisation looks like, nosotros wanted to exhibit how chaotic too messy too impossible it is to pivot down,” Mihalache explains inwards a press release.

That means, for instance, showcasing histories of how Indigenous foods became viewed every bit “Canadian” afterwards they were appropriated yesteryear settlers, or the artifacts that recorded what early on immigrants brought to Canada, similar an 1890s English linguistic communication bottle of curry powder.

Various cookbooks besides shed low-cal on Canada’s trending recipes. In add-on to the showtime English-language Canadian cookbook (The Frugal Housewife’s Manual) too showtime French-language Canadian cookbook (La Cuisiniére Canadienne), on display are editions of writer Catharine Parr Traill’s Female Emigrant’s Guide, a guidebook that includes advice for novel immigrants to Canada almost things similar what range to grow....MORE