Immigration History

 “Food speaks. It tells of memories, of relationships, cultural histories, and personal life stories.”

Lucy Long, Interdisciplinary Scholar

One of the most important aspects of food and migration is that foodways are changeable from many points along a migration. New dishes from the old country can make their way into kitchens around the world. Migrants who left a country two decades before might find their link with that old place renewed through new and trendy foods that they never experienced there.

Read the full article: Cookbooks, Cultural Connections, And Migration⟶

In a mocked-up pink-walled room, a yellow chair and footstool sit on a pink rug beside a bookshelf with two dozen cookbooks.

The cookbook nook in eat make share: a taste of immigration offers a colourful and comfortable place to read a number of great cookbooks.

Credit: Colin Timm / Canadian Museum of Immigration, 2025.

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