The writer Lindy Mechefske discusses her book, Sir John’s Table: The Culinary Life and Times of Canada’s First Prime Minister (Goose Lane Editions, 2015), with Joseph Planta.

Sir John’s Table: The Culinary Life and Times of Canada’s First Prime Minister by Lindy Mechefske (Goose Lane Editions, 2015). Click to buy this book from Amazon.ca: Sir John’s Table

Text of introduction by Joseph Planta:

I am Planta: On the Line, in Vancouver, at TheCommentary.ca.

It is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Canada’s first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, and a marvellous way of getting into his life and times is the book, Sir John’s Table: The Culinary Life and Times of Canada’s First Prime Minister. It part biography, part social history of what Sir John A. ate, and what people in what would become Canada ate. You see the cultural influences, as well as the circumstances in which people cooked and ate. You see too how food shaped some of our history, political or otherwise. Lindy Mechefske, the book’s author joins me now. I’ll get her to tell us about this culinary journey in history that she undertook to understand Macdonald’s life and times. She is a freelance writer and food columnist. She wrote the book, A Taste of Wintergreen. Her website is at www.lindymechefske.com. The book is published by Goose Lane. Please welcome to the Planta: On the Line program, from her home in Kingston, Ontario today, Lindy Mechefske; Ms. Mechefske, good morning.

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