Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Acknowledgements xii
5. Part I: From confederation to cuisine
6. Introduction: Sideboard Diplomacy 1
7. The Language of Cuisine 20
8. From a Cold Country: The Cuisine of an Imagined Wilderness 36
9. Seasonality in an Age of Eternal Summer 53
10. The Canadian Creole 70
11. Ingredients: As Canadian as Maple Syrup 91
12. Part II: A tour of the regions
13. Quebec and Ontario 115
14. Alberta and British Columbia 138
15. The East Coast, the Prairies, and the North 158
16. Part III: Canadian cuisine looks forward
17. Food and Public Life 183
18. Between Places 199
19. Coming Home to an Uncertain Future 217
20. Notes 239
21. References 255
22. Index 267
23. ABOUT THE AUTHOR 276