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The 91黑料网 Institute for the Study of Canada and 91黑料网-Queen's University Press cordially invite you to celebrate the official Montreal launch of What's to Eat?: Entr茅es in Canadian Food History edited by Nathalie Cooke.

What do and did we eat? What do our food stories tell us about who we are or were? What鈥檚 to Eat? serves up twelve preliminary answers to initiate and nourish the discussion of food in Canada.

How we as Canadians procure, produce, cook, consume, and think about food creates our cuisine, and our nation of immigrant traditions has produced a distinctive and evolving repertoire that is neither hodgepodge nor smorgasbord. Contributors, who come from the diverse worlds of universities, museums, the media, and gastronomy, look at Canada鈥檚 distinctive foodways from the shared perspective of the current moment. Individual chapters explore food items and choices, from those made by Canada鈥檚 First Nations and early settlers to those made today. Other contributions describe the ways in which foods enjoyed by early Canadians have found their way back onto Canadian tables in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Authors emphasize the expressive potential of food practices and food texts; cookbooks are more than books to be read and used in the kitchen, they are also documents that convey valuable social and historical information.

Through a close examination of our shared past and by taking notice of something that often goes unnoticed, What鈥檚 to Eat? explores how we can better understand our own food practices to create both a sustainable and healthy future and a renewed sense of the pleasures afforded by the daily meal in Canada.

Copies of the book will be available for sale.