Catharine Parr Traill’s genteel life in England did not prepare her at all for life on the frontier in Ontario in the mid-1800s. But one of the ways she found to support her family in her new world was to write about her experience for other immigrants. Her writings both public and private deal with...

Dr. David Maxwell, archaeologist & collector, discusses what he's learned about contemporary culture from the discarded cans of beers-past. About this Event What does our garbage say about us? As a young anthropologist and archaeologist, Dr. David Maxwell studied Mayan votive offerings and what they tell us about Mayan cultural and political history; but not...

Ian Mosby and Sarah Rotz talk about how to eat our way out of a mess in Uncertain Harvest: The Future of Food on a Warming Planet About this Event A menu for an edible future. In a world expected to reach a staggering population of 10 billion by 2050, and with global temperatures rising...

Vintage historic food & drink packaging and the companies behind them from Toronto's early days. From the exiting new book Packaged Toronto! Researcher and writer Jamie Bradburn will talk about historical food and drink packaging and the companies behind them as featured in a new book from the publishers of Spacing magazine: Packaged Toronto: A...

Mary Williamson talks about the extraordinary mix of cuisine and culture in an 1830 cookbook, with updated recipes demo'd by Elizabeth Baird In her new book, Mrs. Dalgairns's Kitchen, Mary Williamson examines an unusual 19th century cookbook, The Practice of Cookery. The book was unique not only in being wholly original, but for its broad...