Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
I Cultural Exchanges and Cuisines in the Contact Zone
1. 'Fit for the table of the most fastidious epicure': Culinary Colonialism in the Upper Canadian Contact Zone
2. 'The snipe were good and the wine not bad': Enabling Public Life for Privileged Men
3. The Role of Food in Canadian Expressions of Christianity
II Regional Food Identities and Traditions
4. Pine-clad hills and spindrift swirl: The Character, Persistence, and Significance of Rural Newfoundland Foodways
5. Stocking the Root Cellar: Foodscapes in the Peace River Region
6. Rational Meals for the Traditional Family: Nutrition in Quebec School Manuals, 1900-1960
III Foodways and Memories in Ethnic and Racial Communities
7. 'We Didn't Have A Lot of Money, But We Had Food': Ukrainians and Their Depression-Era Food Memories
8. Feeding the Dead: The Ukrainian Food Colossi of the Canadian Prairies
9. Toronto's Multicultured Tongues: Stories of South Asian Cuisines
IV Gendering Food in Cookbooks and Family Spaces
10. More than 'just' Recipes: Mennonite Cookbooks in Mid-twentieth Century North America
11. Gefilte Fish and Roast Duck with Orange Slices: A Treasure for my Daughter and the Creation of a Jewish Cultural Orthodoxy in Postwar Montreal
12. 'Tutti a Tavola!' Feeding the Family in Two Generations of Italian Immigrant Households in Montreal
V Single Food Commodities, Markets, and Cultural Debates
13. John Bull and Sons: The Empire Marketing Board and the Creation of a British Imperial Food System
14. Spreading Controversy: The Story of Margarine in Quebec
VI Protests, Mindful Eating, and the Politics of Food
15. The Politics of Milk: Canadian Housewives Organize in the 1930s
16. 'Less Inefficiency, More Milk': The Politics of Food and the Culture of the English-Canadian University, 1900-1950
17. The Granola High: Eating Differently in the 1960s and 1970s
18. 'Meat Stinks/Eat Beef Dyke!': Coming out as a Vegetarian in the Prairies
VII National Identities and Cultural Spectacles
19. Nationalism on the Menu: Three Banquets on the 1939 Royal Tour
20. Food Acts and Cultural Politics: Women and the Gendered Dialectics of Culinary Pluralism at the International Institute of Toronto, 1950s-1960s
VIII Marketing and Imposing Nutritional Standards
21. Vim, Vigour and Vitality: 'Power' Foods for Kids in Canadian Popular Magazines, 1914-1954
22. Making and Breaking Canada's Food Rules: Science, the State, and the Government of Nutrition, 1942-1949
23. 'A National Priority': Nutrition Canada's Survey and the Disciplining of Aboriginal Bodies, 1964-75