Cultural History

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Ghosts in a Photograph
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Ghosts in a Photograph

In Ghosts in a Photograph, award-winning nonfiction writer Myrna Kostash delves into the lives of her grandparents, all of whom moved from Galicia, now present-day Ukraine, to Alberta at the turn … 304 View
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Gnocchi Love
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Gnocchi Love

The Sauce

From: What We Talk About When We Talk About Dumplings

Domenica Marchetti explores the Italian potato pasta, gnocchi, her parents attributing gnocchi as helping them fall in love, the gnocchi process, regional differences in gnocchi flavours and … 10 $1.00 Add
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Good Times' Coonfoolery

Good Times’ Coonfoolery

From: Uncle

In this chapter, Thompson writes about depictions of African Americans on television, especially in shows written and produced by Norman Lear. 9 $0.90 Add
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Great Again

Great Again

On Political Nostalgia

From: On Nostalgia

This chapter examines nostalgia in modern democracies, where generalized nostalgia binds individuals into a mass movement through its vagueness. The dissonance between nostlagia and how politics … 23 $2.30 Add
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Great Moments with Mr. Hamilton

Great Moments with Mr. Hamilton

From: Bigotry on Broadway

The author critiques Disney and Hamilton, asserting that the sugarcoated treatment of American history that the musical presents is perfectly in sync with the Disney ethos. This chapter explores … 35 $3.50 Add
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Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier

Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier

From: Uncle

In this chapter, Thompson examines the careers of several important Black actors whose characters were not "stranded in cinematic slavery." 8 $0.80 Add
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Heavy Is the Head That Wears the Pierogi Crown
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Heavy Is the Head That Wears the Pierogi Crown

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From: What We Talk About When We Talk About Dumplings

Monika Warzecha reflects on pierogies and becoming the ‘pierogi princess’, being a hyphenated Canadian, the multicultural classrooms of Toronto, Polish diaspora in Canada, Polish … 7 $0.70 Add
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Householding
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Householding

Part Six

From: Earthkeeping

Part Six contains the sections: This Old House: Honeymoon & After, Getting to Know You, Old House, Window Talk, Gone to a Better Place: A Wood Stove Memoir, Winter Woodchuck Woes, Fire from … 45 $4.50 Add
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I Pinch, Therefore I Am
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I Pinch, Therefore I Am

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From: What We Talk About When We Talk About Dumplings

Matthew Murtagh-Wu reflects on growing up in Vancouver’s Chinatown, his business the Dumpling King, his mama dumpling recipe, and the power of nostalgia. 6 $0.60 Add
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If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, Why am I Eating Matzo Ball Soup?
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If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, Why am I Eating Matzo Ball Soup?

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From: What We Talk About When We Talk About Dumplings

Amy Rosen reflects on matzo ball soup, Jewishness and Judaism, industrial matzo ball making, the authority on matzo, recipes that evoke specific memories, and context. 6 $0.60 Add
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I’m Just So Tired of All These Star Wars

I’m Just So Tired of All These Star Wars

On Art and Nostalgia

From: On Nostalgia

Modern nostalgia in novel and flim is discussed, using examples of Ready Player One, Back to the Future, American Graffitti, Indiana Jones, and the introduction of prequels with Star Wars. … 22 $2.20 Add
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Introduction

Introduction

From: Uncle

In the introduction, the author discusses her lifelong fascination with the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. 10 $1.00 Add
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Introduction

Introduction

Play It Once Again

From: On Nostalgia

The introduction discusses paradise as a place where nothing ever happens, as in the song "Heaven" by the Talking Heads. It also discusses the tension in nostalgia between the loss, the … 3 $0.30 Add
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Introduction

Introduction

From: Bigotry on Broadway

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Introduction
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Introduction

From: What We Talk About When We Talk About Dumplings

In the Introduction Karon Liu describes his goal to map the dumplings of Toronto, highlighting culinary diversity in the multiethnic make up of the city, migration, tradition, Covid-19 and  … 6 $0.60 Add
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Introduction: Nature under Glass?
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Introduction: Nature under Glass?

From: Earthkeeping

The Introduction reflects on nature from a child’s perspective and the lessons to be learned. 3 $0.30 Add