• Perfect Pairings Lobster Dip with Ka’ak Al-Quds
    Perfect Pairings , a program by the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, brings together home cooks to create recipes by blending elements of their unique cultural food traditions.  This unique recipe was a collaboration between Comfort Foodies owner Keisha Carter and Ghada Shuli, founder of …
  • Interpretation Guidelines and Resources for A History Exposed
    A History Exposed Welcome to the A History Exposed Information page. Below are documents and resources for marketing, programming, installing and maintaining the exhibition. Exhibition Questions If you have any questions, please contact: Julie Martin, Assistant Curator 902-425-7770 ext. 278 …
  • Julie Van Rosendaal’s Newfoundland-style Chow Mein
    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 …
  • Madame Benoît’s Quebec Tourtière
    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 …
  • Chef Jenni Lessard’s Spruce Tip Butter
    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 …
  • Chef Trudy Metcalfe Coe’s Arctic Char Ceviche
    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. …
  • Rebecca Teitelbaum’s Orange Cake
    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 …
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