Edible Histories, Cultural Politics: Towards a Canadian Food History

Contents\nIllustrations\nPreface\nIntroduction\nPart One: Cultural Exchanges and Cuisines in the Contact Zone\n1 ‘Fit for the Table of the Most Fastidious Epicure’: Culinary Colonialism in the Upper Canadian Contact Zone\n2 ‘The Snipe Were Good and the Wine Not Bad’: Enabling Public Life for Privileged Men\n3 The Role of Food in Canadian Expressions of Christianity\nPart Two: Regional Food Identities and Traditions\n4 Pine-Clad Hills and Spindrift Swirl: The Character, Persistence, and Significance of Rural Newfoundland Foodways\n5 Stocking the Root Cellar: Foodscapes in the Peace River Region\n6 Rational Meals for the Traditional Family: Nutrition in Quebec School Manuals, 1900–1960\nPart Three: Foodways and Memories in Ethnic and Racial Communities\n7 ‘We Didn’t Have a Lot of Money, but We Had Food’: Ukrainians and Their Depression-Era Food Memories\n8 Feeding the Dead: The Ukrainian Food Colossi of the Canadian Prairies\n9 Toronto’s Multicultured Tongues: Stories of South Asian Cuisines\nPart Four: Gendering Food in Cookbooks and Family Spaces\n10 More than ‘Just’ Recipes: Mennonite Cookbooks in Mid-Twentieth-Century North America\n11 Gefilte Fish and Roast Duck with Orange Slices: A Treasure for My Daughter and the Creation of a Jewish Cultural Orthodoxy in Postwar Montreal\n12 ‘Tutti a Tavola!’ Feeding the Family in Two Generations of Italian Immigrant Households in Montreal\nPart Five: Single Food Commodities, Markets, and Cultural Debates\n13 John Bull and Sons: The Empire Marketing Board and the Creation of a British Imperial Food System\n14 Spreading Controversy: The Story of Margarine in Quebec\nPart Six: Protests, Mindful Eating, and the Politics of Food\n15 The Politics of Milk: Canadian Housewives Organize in the 1930s\n16 ‘Less Inefficiency, More Milk’: The Politics of Food and the Culture of the English-Canadian University, 1900–1950\n17 The Granola High: Eating Differently in the Late 1960s and 1970s\n18 ‘Meat Stinks/Eat Beef Dyke!’ Coming Out as a Vegetarian in the Prairies\nPart Seven: National Identities and Cultural Spectacles\n19 Nationalism on the Menu: Three Banquets on the 1939 Royal Tour\n20 Food Acts and Cultural Politics: Women and the Gendered Dialectics of Culinary Pluralism at the International Institute of Toronto, 1950s–1960s\nPart Eight: Marketing and Imposing Nutritional Standards\n21 Vim, Vigour, and Vitality: ‘Power’ Foods for Kids in Canadian Popular Magazines, 1914–1954\n22 Making and Breaking Canada’s Food Rules: Science, the State, and the Government of Nutrition, 1942–1949\n23 ‘A National Priority’: Nutrition Canada’s Survey and the Disciplining of Aboriginal Bodies, 1964–1975\nContributors