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Manuel de cuisine de la compagnie d'assurance-vie Metropolitan Life. [Ottawa]: Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., 1918
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Over the years, Metropolitan Life has provided simple cookbooks for beginning cooks. This early version includes advice on nutrition and the daily requirements for healthy living.
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The Magic Baking Powder Cook Book. Montréal: Standard Brands, [1920]
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An advertisement included in the cookbook stressed the superior quality of its featured product: "We take the most painstaking care to assure that the quality of Magic Baking Powder is always maintained at the highest level. Its tremendous popularity is due to the fact that -- 'A Satisfied Customer is our Best Advertisement' -- and more than three out of every four housewives in Canada to-day use Magic Baking Powder exclusively."
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Association canadienne d'économie familiale. Recettes
canadiennes de Laura Secord. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1966
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Billed as the first truly Canadian cookbook, published in both French and English and sponsored, appropriately, by Laura Secord Candy Shops, this attractive and useful book identifies the regions from which each of the wide-ranging recipes originates. "One thing we did prove conclusively: there is a Canadian cuisine, and it is unique in all the world" (p. 9).
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Five Roses: A Guide to Good Cooking. Historical notes by Elizabeth Driver. Vancouver: Whitecap Books, 2003
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In a recent interview, Elizabeth Driver explained: "I have been handling historical cookbooks as artefacts instead of using them. Now using them I hear the voice of the women behind the words" (London Free Press, June 4, 2003).
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