![]() ![]() ![]() Rather than demonizing these foods, Adams cradles them in conical ceramic pots delicately balanced between rocks on the gallery floor. Adams’ use of white flour, white sugar, lard, salt, and milk as the main ingredients in her installation speaks to her experience with the prevalence of diabetes in Aboriginal communities and in her own family. KC Adams’ artwork, titled The Gift that Keeps on Giving (2011), considered some of the processed ingredients in her family recipe for pancakes. Much like my breakfast in Shawanaga, everyone has something to say about food and this exhibition stimulated a food conversation that anyone could savour. As the artists reminisced about picking tea, making pancakes, assembling sandwiches, cooking with Spam, and making bannock, they engaged in, and with, the meaning of food. ![]() Their use of food engaged the politics of place in relation to colonial history and their lived experience.īest Before offered a feast of artworks. As the curator of the art exhibition Best Before, I invited Aboriginal artists KC Adams, Keesic Douglas, Cheryl L’Hirondelle, Peter Morin, and Suzanne Morrissette to enter into a similar conversation about food memories by making artwork that responded to a recipe of their choice. Memories and stories like these confirm that food connects people with places, history, and a sense of identity. The conversation continued with stories of scone making, fried bologna, and the unresolved controversy of whether a beaver tail could be cooked up like bacon or if it was just used to sharpen knives. Our Uncle Sonny piped up, “I know how to make scone.” He started listing off measurements. My sister explained that her own scone always came out hard as a rock. This was last winter and we were having a family breakfast at the restaurant attached to the gas station in Shawanaga, a reserve three hours north of Toronto. It was the soup and scone special that started the discussion of how our Granny made the best scone. ![]() As the curator of the art exhibition Best Before, I invited Aboriginal artists KC Adams, Keesic Douglas, Cheryl L’Hirondelle, Peter Morin, and Suzanne Morrissette to enter into a conversation about food memories by making artwork. ![]()
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