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The Culture of Cooking


How dull life would be if new ingredients, new ideas for cooking, new dishes and new fashions did not inspire cooks and tempt appetites. The introduction of surprising combinations and new ingredients from around the world has always been a part of cooking. Magazines, cooking columns in newspapers, books and television programs are swift to respond to new ideas, and each new decade has had its favourites. In Canada, the art of cooking -- as well as the art of dining, exemplified in early 20th-century menus and dinner cards -- has inspired a delicious culinary heritage.

Favourite recipes from a decade of the magazine Canadian Living have been selected for this sumptuous volume.

 

 

 

Cover of cookbook, THE CANADIAN LIVING COOKBOOK, with a photograph of plates of food
Source
Carol Ferguson. The Canadian Living Cookbook. Mississauga, Ont.: Random House of Canada, 1987

Handmade dinner card with an illustration of a woman in a long dress and fur-trimmed robe, wearing a wide feathered hat and carrying an oversized purse. The card is inscribed MR. SCOTT, JAN. 29TH Source

 

Handmade dinner card with an illustration of a woman wearing a long striped dress and a wide feathered hat and carrying an oversized purse. The card is inscribed MRS. D.C. SCOTT, JAN. 29TH Source

 

Handmade dinner card with an illustration of a seated woman in a long mauve dress and wide feathered hat, holding a dog on a leash. The card is inscribed MR. O.C. CAMPBELL Source

 

Handmade dinner card with an illustration of a young woman in a blue hooped dress, wearing a bonnet and carrying a bouquet of flowers. The card is inscribed MISS MERRIT'S COUNTRY CLUB LUNCHEON, JUNE 26TH, MRS. SCOTT Source

Early twentieth-century dinner cards from the scrapbooks of Belle Botsford Scott


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