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Zaynna Khalife, Ardavan Taraporewala, Linette Doherty and Howard Dai in The New Canadian Curling Club . Photo by @stoometzphoto For a lot of people, curling is a mystery . It doesn’t look very athletically demanding, and yet - as many Canadians have discovered while flipping through TV channels - …
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Lenga lenga is a leafy green and common vegetable grown in Central and Eastern Africa. It can be grown in a garden and incorporated into stews or eaten as a side dish. This recipe comes from Imelde Nduwimana who came to Canada ten years ago from Burundi after living in a refugee camp in Tanzania …
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While bananas can be found in many grocery stores across Canada today, the vast majority of them are exported from tropical regions. Swapping bananas for locally-grown parsnips can provide a dose of fibre, vitamins and folate and could lower your carbon footprint. Claire Felloni , CC BY-SA 4.0 , …
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The salmonberry plant grows on the Pacific Northwest coast and has nourished and healed Indigenous communities living there for countless generations. This recipe for salmonberry crisps comes from land-based educator and poet 'Cúagilákv (Jess Housty), who has harvested salmonberries on Haíɫzaqv …
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Growing up in 1930s Saskatchewan with Ukrainian parents, Mary Didur started making perogies when she was five or six years old. She said, “the recipe has gone through so many changes…Each time it has changed hands, it has been improved. My mother probably got her recipe from her mother, in …
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Chow mein is a Chinese Canadian dish of fried noodles, but in Newfoundland, where noodles were historically difficult to get, it is made with cabbage cut into ribbons. In Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Café and Other Stories from Canada’s Chinese Restaurants (2018) author Ann Hui writes, “…from its …
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Tourtière is a double crusted meat pie, traditionally enjoyed in Quebec during the Christmas feast called reveillon. Pork is often used, but it could include other meats or even local game, like rabbit or moose. Canadian television host Madame Benoît’s tourtière filling recipe is particularly …
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Spruce tips are the young spring buds on the branches of spruce trees. Spruce has been used by Indigenous peoples in salves, topical creams, teas, beers and in modern cooking. The tips can be harvested in the spring to add a delicious, aromatic flavour to many dishes. This spruce tip butter recipe …
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Inspired by trying ceviche for the first time in Costa Rica, award-winning Inuk chef Trudy Metcalfe Coe returned home with the idea of making a variation of the popular dish with Arctic char and local ingredients. Chef Trudy Metcalfe Coe’s Arctic Char Ceviche. Courtesy of Chef Trudy Metcalfe Coe. …
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While in a Nazi concentration camp, Rebecca Teitelbaum risked her life to secretly record the recipes of fellow prisoners. She included her own recipe for orange cake, a dish that she would later make in Canada for her family every Sunday. Rebecca Teitelbaum portrait. Courtesy of the Vancouver …