Cookbook Connections focuses not so much on what rural Prairie residents ate over the decades as on how this culinary knowledge was preserved. | Screencap via wdm.ca

Best cookbooks not written by celebrity chefs

A great way to tell a culture’s story is through its food, something that the staff at the Western Development Museum certainly recognizes. A display in the museum’s front entrance focuses not so much on what rural Prairie residents ate over the decades as o n how this culinary knowledge was preserved. Called Cookbook Connections, […] Read more

A 1912 Case steam engine and plow turn sod at the Western Development Museum in Moose Jaw, 1974. | Photo provided by the Western Development Museum

Western Development Museum tracks farming’s history

The Western Development Museum might not be as old as The Western Producer, but it’s getting up there. While the Producer was documenting the progress made in prairie agriculture, the Saskatchewan museum was doing the same but with physical objects. Here is a quick look at how this provincial icon developed over more than 70 […] Read more