Author: FLBSD

When you think of traditional Canadian Soul Food, you often think of dishes like poutine, bacon and butter tarts. There is a lot more to our local cuisine than just that. In the article, ‘The Most Canadian Food’, it outlines many other dishes that we may not think of as being traditional. However, Canada is continually changing; our traditional dishes are constantly being added to.

Your job is to explore this ever-changing area of our culture. You need to find recipes, research the history and debate the importance of the following:
a very specific Canadian food “only in Canada” such as: Lunenburg Pudding, Poutine, Maple Syrup, Saskatoon berries, wild rice, red fife wheat, the nodding onion, the Tamworth pig, etc…
a very specific Canadian food in your family (ie. A dish your family eats for Easter or Christmas, etc.)
a Canadian Food Hero (in your personal opinion): this may be a farmer, a producer, a food advocate or someone in your region that is clearly working to preserve the heritage of Canadian regional food

This project will be worth 30 marks (each section is worth 10 marks) and can be presented to the class in any way you wish. The recipes you find will be the ones that you choose from within your groups for the Canadian Soul Food Challenge in the next week.