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Prairie Foodways

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Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta: WHEAT on a scale that fed empires, plus canola (bred in Canada and named for it), pulses — ⚠ SASKATCHEWAN IS AMONG THE WORLD’S LARGEST LENTIL AND PEA EXPORTERS, which surprises people — beef and the Alberta feedlot, bison returning as ranched animals, and the saskatoon berry. The settler food is Eastern European before it is British: UKRAINIAN above all, with PEROGIES (varenyky), holubtsi, kielbasa, borscht and the world’s largest perogy statue at Glendon; plus Mennonite communities with vereniki, farmer sausage and rollkuchen; Hutterite colonies; Icelandic Gimli with its vínarterta; and German, Polish and Scandinavian settlement. ⚠ ALL OF IT ON TREATY LAND whose Indigenous food system was destroyed with the buffalo.

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Where in the world

Communities and languages

  • Ukrainian Canadians community documented
  • Mennonites community documented

Languages: English, Ukrainian, German, Plains Cree, Blackfoot, Heritage Michif

What is recorded

  • Ukrainian settlement of the Prairies begins, bringing perogies, holubtsi and kielbasa to become Prairie food. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • related to German Foodways documented

    Mennonite and Hutterite communities with vereniki, farmer sausage and rollkuchen.

  • related to Icelandic Foodways documented

    Gimli in Manitoba, the largest Icelandic settlement outside Iceland, and vínarterta.

  • related to Ukrainian Foodways documented

    Ukrainian settlement of the Prairies from 1891; perogies, holubtsi and kielbasa are Prairie food now.

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