Cultural History

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Dumplings
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Dumplings

Nearly every culture has a variation on the dumpling: histories, treatises, family legends, and recipes about the world’s favourite lump of carbs. ​​​​If the … 234 View
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What’s in a Name? The Jamaican Patty Controversy
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What’s in a Name? The Jamaican Patty Controversy

The Sauce

From: What We Talk About When We Talk About Dumplings

Cheryl Thompson reflects on her parents ties to their Jamaican roots through food, learning to make Jamaican food, the book Traditional Jamaican Cookery, food history, the Jamaican beef patty, … 5 $0.50 Add
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When You Mess with Creation Myths, the Knives Come Out

When You Mess with Creation Myths, the Knives Come Out

From: Bigotry on Broadway

Tha author recounts his experiences and thoughts after having written and produced his play The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda and critiques the popular play Hamilton. 8 $0.80 Add
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Who Was Uncle Nick?
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Who Was Uncle Nick?

From: Ghosts in a Photograph

Chapter Seven focuses on Uncle Nick, the author’s maternal great uncle Mykola Kosovan. Discussing his time in Lethbridge, his communist leanings,  poverty and radicalization back in … 16 $1.60 Add
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Why <i>Butterfly</i> Should Stop Committing Literary Hara-kiri

Why Butterfly Should Stop Committing Literary Hara-kiri

From: Bigotry on Broadway

This chapter explores the racism, fetishism/objectification, and misogyny of Madame Butterfly. 9 $0.90 Add
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Wild Kin
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Wild Kin

Part Three

From: Earthkeeping

Part Three contains the sections: The Lovely Duckling, Turtle Tale, So Excellent a Fish: Capelin, Gift from the Sky, God’s Dead Dog & Other Roadkills, Caribou Caper, COVID-19 Moment, and … 43 $4.30 Add
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Wonton of Joy
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Wonton of Joy

The Filling

From: What We Talk About When We Talk About Dumplings

Arlene Chan discusses her connection to Cantonises food and in particular the wonton, her family’s Kwong Chow Chop Suey Restaurant in Toronto, the annual ritual of making dumplings for … 6 $0.60 Add
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Work & Play & Food
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Work & Play & Food

Part Five

From: Earthkeeping

Part Five contains the sections: Down to Earth, A Salmon for Supper, Of Seals and Cod and Us, Oatmeal Shenanigans, Part Surgeon, Part Seamstress: A Fly-Tying Memoir, Dike-Land Rambles, Chaga … 51 $5.10 Add
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Yuri
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Yuri

Versions of a Murder

From: Ghosts in a Photograph

Chapter Ten is about Yuri Kosovan, the author’s maternal great uncle. Describing his death, the four varying tales of his death at the hands of either “bandyty” (bandits), UPA, Banderivtsi … 22 $2.20 Add