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A close up of a cow nose, a diagram of orbits within our solar system, and an electron microscope image of a bacteria

3 things you should know about eco-friendly cows, near Earth asteroids, and potential life on Mars

Michelle Campbell Mekarski, PhD

Canada Science and Technology Museum

For the August edition, we tackle solutions for making cows more environmentally friendly, searching for near Earth asteroids, and how resilient life forms on Earth opens up the possibility of life on Mars.

A stack of butter tarts sit on a silver platter; a small Canadian flag is inserted into the top butter tart.

Baskin Robbins is bringing back their butter tart ice cream and it's so Canadian

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

With the hot summer weather in full swing, Baskin Robbins is helping Canadians cool down with a quintessentially Canadian ice cream flavour.

A young child watches cookies bake in an oven.

11 kid-friendly baking ideas

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Baking with your kids is a great educational activity to do at home! The process of baking enables kids to practice math and reading, and explore new flavours — all while learning a useful skill.

Insert from Jell-O recipe book showing images of syllabub, maple walnut Jell-O, cherry Jell-O, stuffed tomato salad, pineapple mouse, and marbled Jell-O. (“JELLO- 10 c A PACKAGE”)

Retro recipes: Cookbooks from the Ingenium collection

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Conservators Erin Secord and Jessica Lafrance-Hwang noticed a lively exchange of vintage recipes on social media and suggested we share some from Ingenium’s trade literature collection.

Catherine Beddall assembles a gingerbread house.

Behind the scenes: Meet a gingerbread artist

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Pastry chef Catherine Beddall is living the sweet life! Her incredible gingerbread creations — which have won multiple awards — are sure to inspire you in the kitchen this holiday season.

The cover of a recipe book, featuring a yellow box of Margene on a blue background.

Margarine: The complex story of a simple spread

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

The production of cheap margarine was a boon to poorer consumers. Although some countries adopted it easily, other countries tried to eliminate it or limit its availability. In the 1870s, margarine began to spread (pardon the pun) to other countries.

2) An outstretched hand holds a mixture of grains above a blue dish.

Behind the scenes: Meet an organic grain farmer

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Shelley and Tony Spruit are going against the grain. After more than a quarter century of growing wheat, soybeans, and corn — mainly for animal feed and ethanol — the couple began experimenting with alternatives on their family owned and operated farm near Ottawa, planting seeds from corn and barley varieties not traditionally grown in Ontario. The move is reflective of their agricultural philosophy, and Shelley Spruit believes it’s critically important to educate consumers about what they’re

Towers of a nitrogen fertilizer production plant stand against a blue, cloudy sky.

Earth & Environment

From plant to pantry: Tracking pollution in Canada's food production

In his first article, “Opening a digital window on our way of life,” guest author Tim Lougheed introduced us to the federal government’s National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI). In this second piece, Lougheed illustrates how NPRI data can be used to learn about the pollutants created through food production. When we think about the accomplishments that represent our civilization, does the modern grocery store come to mind? It should. Even the most modest one offers nutritional riches

Robert L. Pavey, director of special foods at Swift & Company, tasting cubes of roast beef, or Moon meatballs, that Apollo program astronauts may have eaten. Anon., “Space foods, space fashions inspired by Moon.” The Desert Sun, 17 July 1969, 4.

I was eating on the Moon one day, in the merry, merry month of July

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

You may be pleased, or not, my reading friend, to hear (read?) that yours truly, eager as I am to offer you an ever more varied selection of tasty viands, boldly went where I had not gone before in search of a topic for this week. And yes, I plead guilty to 2 counts of awkward paraphrasing, one against William “Bill” Shatner, an actor originally from the Montréal region of Québec, and one against Leonard Simon Nimoy. What’s this? You get the reference to the opening words of every episode of the

A photo of cascara, a by-product of coffee.

Beyond the beans: the advantages of coffee by-products

An Ottawa-based coffee roaster is hoping to give consumers a wake-up call about coffee waste and by-products.

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