What They Can Teach Us: The Podcast

Feast your ears on this episode about food history in Germany and Canada. Host Frank Brueckner talks traditional German dishes, food rationing in the postwar period, and migrants adjusting to the cuisine of a new country. Cover art by Alexe Normandin   Transcript:  Rehrücken…Pfälzer Saumagen…Ochsenmaulsalat...Spargel mit Kartoffeln und Butter...Blutwurst...Schäufele...Handkäs mit Musik...Bismarckh...

Mosey into this melodic episode exploring the pre- and postwar music scene in Germany and the kinds of music that Anneliese, Alma, Barbara and Lisa and others of their generation would have been listening to in their youth and in their lives abroad. Cover graphic by Alexe Normandin. All music is public domain. Source links forthcoming.   Episode Transcript: [Music plays] Our past isn't just black...

Produced in collaboration with the University of Winnipeg's Chair in German-Canadian Studies, we present: What They Can Teach Us: The Podcast! Host Frank Brueckner introduces you to the web resource, What They Can Teach Us, featuring interviews with four German immigrant women who came to Canada in the 1950s. Using historical research mixed with interview excerpts, he will guide you through topics...