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Out of Old Saskatchewan Kitchens
Amy-Jo Ehman
In Saskatchewan, food is history. After all, the land was settled with farmers for the very purpose of growing food. By 1906, Saskatchewan was calling itself the Breadbasket of the World. But food has a sad chapter, too, as Métis and Indigenous parents struggled to feed their families in the face of hardship, discrimination, broken promises and a wave of settlement.
Out of Old Saskatchewan Kitchens retells the history of Saskatchewan through the lens of food. With dozens of archival photographs and many more recipes, we see how settlers from around the world brought their culinary traditions to the Canadian plains and did their best to make the old recipes with the ingredients of their new home.
Many of those old family recipes are still cherished today. From perogies to bullet soup, from bannock to potato pie, from vinaterta to shishliki to chop suey. Food is a cultural touchstone between past and present, the flavourful bond of family, fraternity and friends.
The Frances Morrison Central Library officially opened on May 28, 1966. This facility was named after Frances Morrison, who served as Saskatoon Public Library’s (SPL) chief librarian from 1961 to 1980. The Frances Morrison Central Library is the largest of SPL’s nine libraries and houses a dedicated Children’s Department, Fine Arts Department, Local History Room, Theatre, a computer lab, Innovation Lab, SPL's Writer in Residence, Accessibility Services and various administrative offices.