Halifax Tastes

Discover the flavors of Nova Scotia with recipes, stories and photographs from 27 incredible restaurants in and around Halifax. Halifax is famous for its fresh and flavorful seafood. But as the largest city in Canada’s Maritime Provinces, it should be no surprise that Halifax boasts a wide variety of culinary traditions with some of the country’s finest restaurants. With cuisine ranging from classic Canadian to Italian, Thai, Chinese, Japanese, Greek, and more, Halifax combines its local bounty with global flavors. In Halifax Tastes, Liz Feltham collects delectable recipes from twenty-seven restaurants across the Halifax and Dartmouth area. With stories and gorgeous photography of the food and the scenery, Halifax Tastes offers a mouth-watering window into the culinary world of Halifax—and lets you bring the flavor home.

Magazine articles, news items, and self-improvement books tell us that our daily food choices – whether we opt for steak or vegetarian, a TV dinner or a sit-down meal – serve as bold statements about who we are as individuals. Acquired Tastes makes the case that our food habits say more about where we come from and who we would like to be. This intimate portrait of eating habits and attitudes towards food in over one hundred Canadian families in both rural and urban settings reveals that our food choices never solely reflect personal tastes. Age, gender, social class, ethnicity, health concerns, food availability, and political and moral concerns shape the meanings that families attach to food and their self-identities. They also influence how its members respond to social discourses on health, beauty, and the environment, a finding that has profound implications for public health campaigns.