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Five Questions for Lindy Mechefske, author of Out of Old Ontario Kitchens

What inspires you to write about food?

My love affair with food, and even more specifically, with the combination of food and history, began when I was three years old, rolling out the pastry for jam tarts in my grandfather's ancient Yorkshire kitchen. What I remember is this: food, love, joy.

Food is so often our first (and our last) memory of life. Food is community, culture, love. Food is our most fundamental necessity.

We are part of a global food community and food connects us — all of us — the whole immense global population. And the thing is, food is not just the world's largest industry, but it is also one of the ways in which we make the biggest impact on the planet. The way we eat and the food we choose to buy, grow, and cook, has staggering implications for the future of the world.

It is almost impossible to overstate the importance of food.

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Canadian Art Montague has been writing professionally about Canadiana and Canadian history for more than a decade.

In the vein of popular history, Montague has authored five books in the Amazing Stories series, including Canada's Rumrunners, Disasters Across Canada, and The Canadian Horse (James Lorimer & Co. Ltd., publisher).

Montague's work also includes more than 200 articles in print and electronic media. He is a long time contributor to the Old Farmer's Almanac, Canadian Edition. He fully realized the significance of the military to Canada's history and subsequent development as a nation while he was researching an article for the Almanac about the impact of the British Royal Engineers, followed by a more comprehensive article for History magazine.

Montague presently lives with his family in Perth, Ontario, about midway between CFB Trenton, Kingston, and CFB Petawawa, and close to Ottawa.

MacIntyre Purcell Publishing Inc. is located at 194 Hospital Rd., Lunenburg, Nova Scotia B0J 2C0