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Help Us Preserve Our Heritage

If you have old Western Canadian cookbooks, or your grandmother's handwritten recipe book, please consider donating them to the University of the Fraser Valley's Newman Western Canadian Cookbook Collection. Old menus, brochures, and recipes are invaluable for scholars and culinary professionals. We will preserve them and make them available to future researchers.

Good Food Tells a Story

Good food tells a story : favourite recipes from the University of the Fraser Valley by Mary-Anne MacDougall
Call Number: TX 715.6 M23 2015
Publication Date: 2015

UFV library's fundraiser cookbook, Good Food Tells a Story is available for $10 (inc. tax). Just come into the library and ask for it at the service desk.

If you want to read a review:

Good food tells a story: Favourite recipes from the University of the Fraser Valley
Most recipes include a brief story by the contributor about the origin of the recipe, who made it, when and how it was made and tips for serving. The contributors are men and women. The stories indicate that recipe preparation is often a social event; that recipes were often learned by working with a parent or grandparent, and that food preparation today is often done cooperatively for and with other family members (pizza, overnight buns for example). Recipes were gleaned from friends, chefs, parents, and a home economics class. [From Author]

Celebrating the Newman Western Canadian Cookbook Collection - September 24th

On September 24th, 2015, the UFV and broader community gathered together for a celebration of UFV Library's new Special Collection - the Newman Western Canadian Cookbook Collection. We unveiled our new UFV Cookbook of favourite recipes, Good Food Tells a Story, as well as celebrating the MSA Museum's publication of Abbotsford: from Village to City.

Click here for images from that wonderful evening.

Giving to the Library

Information on how to give to the UFV Library
is available here.

The library accepts both in-kind donations to the library's Special Collections, and cash donations in general.

To learn more about giving to UFV, click here.

Two old and well used cookbooks.