from Cook More Waste Less I had been meaning to try stuffed avocados for some time – since half an avocado with a squeeze of lemon and a sprinkle of salt and pepper is my quick go-to snack—so I always have a half left over! It wasn’t until I demolished them in a little bar […]
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An indispensable cookbook of delicious, flexible recipes, and easy, everyday solutions to reduce the amount of food waste you produce—for life. The stats on food waste are staggering: currently one-third of all the food produced in the world is thrown away. Going zero-waste with food isn’t some-thing we’ll reach overnight, nor is it a hard and
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What lies behind the development of recipes and research into different cultures’ food and traditions? Researchers Hannah Tait Neufeld and Elizabeth Finnis wanted to explore these worlds and provide context on how dishes and recipes become embraced by both the home cook and professional chefs through a cultural lens. To do that, they implored some
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from Recipes and Reciprocity When asked how krayasat was made, women spoke casually about dry roasting ingredients and mixing them together in large pans. The dry ingredients included peanuts, glutinous rice, popped new rice, coconut, and sesame seeds. After mixing them together, they added either a can of sweetened condensed milk or a mixture of
The pandemic has changed our lives in many ways, but I love the story of Mary Janet’s response to the isolation we all experienced. Prompted by her family to video tape a lesson on how to make cinnamon rolls and posting it on Facebook, Tunes and Wooden Spoons (named by one of her grandchildren) soon
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from Tunes and Wooden Spoons From my dear late friend, Ethel Chisholm Bowl # 1 4 eggs 2 cups sugar 1 ¼ cup vegetable oil 1 can pumpkin pie filling (540 ml) Beat with electric beater until well combined. Set aside. Bowl # 2 3 cups flour 3 tsp. cinnamon 1 tsp. allspice 1 tsp.
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Mary Janet MacDonald launched her Facebook group, Tunes and Wooden Spoons, in the spring of 2020, more for a lark than anything and to have some fun with family and friends. Never, though, did she think in her wildest dreams that her Cape Breton Cinnamon Buns would turn her into a social media sensation. Today, her
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Recipes and Reciprocity considers the ways that food and research intersect for both researchers, participants, and communities demonstrating how everyday acts around food preparation, consumption, and sharing can enable unexpected approaches to reciprocal research and fuel relationships across cultures, generations, spaces, and places. Each chapter highlights practical and experiential elements of fieldwork, incorporating storytelling, recipes,
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Anime and Japanese food go hand-in-hand. Nadine Estero has brought these two worlds together in this cookbook that not only highlights food but marries each recipe with a matching anime character or scene. And if you’re wondering if Nadine knows her anime, check out her social media pages that supports her knowledge and enthusiasm for the
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What ingredient is more quintessential than Quebec’s maple syrup? When I worked in the school system, we would take bus loads of kids to Quebec City and one of the excursions was always to a sugar shack. The experience made me fall in love with not only Quebec City but the people, beauty and food
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