Food insecurity in the North is one of Canada’s most shameful public health and human rights crises. In Plundering the North, Kristin Burnett and Travis Hay examine the disturbing mechanics behind the origins of this crisis: state and corporate intervention in northern Indigenous foodways. Plundering the North provides fresh insight into Canada’s settler colonial project by re-evaluating […]
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A collection of 80+ cherished heirloom home-baking recipes handed down by generations of Nova Scotians, tested and adapted for enjoying today. Delicious desserts, simply made with tasty ingredients, many of us remember fondly from our youth. Our mothers and grandmothers baked cookies, pies, cakes and desserts using recipes passed down through generations. Now all these
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From Impossible Burgers to lab-made sushi, two witty, plugged-in food scientists explore leading-edge AgTech for the answer to feeding a settlement on Mars — and 9 billion Earthlings too. Feeding a Martian is one of the greatest challenges in the history of agriculture. If we can figure out how to sustain ourselves on Mars, we
The Middle East and the Prairie West meet–deliciously–in this cookbook of over 100 recipes developed by Canada’s foremost expert in Arab cuisine. Habeeb Salloum spent his childhood on the Saskatchewan prairies, the son of Syrian homesteaders who thrived during the depression and drought of the 1930s by growing the dryland crops of their homeland. In
Julia and Simca are two young friends who agree that you can never use too much butter — and that it is best to be a child forever. Sharing a love of cooking and having no wish to turn into big, busy people who worry too much and dawdle too little, they decide to create
This cookbook from Karen Graham includes all the most up-to-date dietary information for those living with diabetes or prediabetes and incorporates the advances in understanding carbohydrates and diabetes diet. Trending fad diets like keto and Atkins have been used to help people with diabetes manage their caloric intake and lose weight by removing carbohydrates. However,
During the dismal years between 1939 and 1945, Maritime women learned to keep their families well fed and fighting fit amidst food shortages and rationing. Their recipes, relevant today for anyone who wants to prepare economical, nutritious meals, have been gathered from newspaper food columns, advertisements, and articles from the war period. Devonna Edwards’s collection
Released from Nazi forced labor as World War II ends, 20-year-old Sam is quickly drafted and sent to the island of Java to help regain control of the colony. But the Indonesian independence movement is far ahead of the Dutch, and Sam is thrown into a guerilla war, his loyalties challenged when his squad commits
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Growing your own medicine is empowering—learn how with plant activists Dan Jason and Rupert Adams. Many common, easy-to-grow plants can energize or soothe, stimulate the immune system, aid in sleep or digestion, help to heal injuries, change blood pressure, reverse inflammation, soothe a sore throat—and more. But how do you find or grow them, and
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Straightforward recipes for cannabis-infused treats that will elevate your enjoyment of the recreational and medicinal benefits of edibles, accompanied by stories from those who partake. Butter and Flower includes an opener on health and safety, guidelines on the basic math for moderate, straightforward dosing, and a glossary of cannabis terms to help newbies steer between CBD
