
Book Description
A Veritable Scoff presents summaries of 170 writings on Newfoundland and Labrador foodways and nutrition for the past several centuries. Is the popularity of boiled dinner - salt pork or beef with root crops - on the wane? Why do the Innu of Davis Inlet call Social Services "the food boss?" How prevalent was beriberi in pre-Confederation Newfoundland? What are dietitians and food scientists in the province concerned about now? The only book of its kind in Canada, this bibliography answers these questions and asks others that are equally compelling.
About the Authors
Maura Hanrahan, Ph.D. (London School of Economics, 1989) has won five international and national awards for her fiction and non fiction writing. She is an adjunct professor of medical anthropology with Memorial University's Faculty of Medicine and has spent several years working with Aboriginal organizations.
A graduate from the University of Toronto and Sunnybrook Medical Centre Dietetic Internship, Marg Ewtushik is a health care and dietetics consultant in St. John's, Newfoundland. She won the Agnew Peckham Award for academic excellence and leadership when she completed the Canadian Hospital Association programs in Health Service and Long Term Senior Management.
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