About
I’m currently a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Guelph. In October 2011, I successfully defended my dissertation, “Food Will Win the War: The Politics and Culture of Food and Nutrition During the Second World War” at York University. In addition to finishing up a book manuscript based upon my doctoral research, I’m also working on a number of interrelated projects examining nutrition research in Aboriginal communities and residential schools; the history of the infant food Pablum; the history of Canadian cookbooks and cuisine; as well as a larger research project exploring the production, consumption, and use of novel food technologies and industrially processed foods in Canada after 1945.
You can also follow me on Twitter @Ian_Mosby or check out my bio at Guelph’s Department of History. If you want to get in touch, email me at imosby (at) uoguelph.ca. I welcome any comments, suggestions, recipes, or donations of baked goods and old cookbooks that you want to send my way!
The site looks great, Ian! I’ve added a bookmark on my blogroll.
Reading your piece ” History in grease stains…..” In the globe today, flooded me with sweet memories. I too have this very cookbook stashed , rescued with many other wonderful old cooking tomes when my mother died 2 years ago. Originally I thought I would just glean them for favourite recipe and publish a small vanity cook book/ photo book in her memory, but I find I cannot throw them away as they are so damn interesting and connected to her.
Thanks for a lovely piece. I find vintage cookbooks to be as fascinating history books of a different time.
Read History in Grease Stains and Pencil Marks today and enjoyed it. I love old cookbooks, (much more than cooking), and I have some very cools one. Though, I’m not sure if any are Canadian. I’ll have to check. I’ve never met anyone who felt the same about old cookbooks as I do, so I’m happy to have found your site.