Amongst the sweet treats that will appear on tables this Christmas, one of the more Canadian options is Nanaimo Bars. It has long been know that the name comes from the town of Nanaimo, British Columbia. Yet the story of the exact origins of the Nanaimo Bar is a complicated one. After much research by Dr. Lenore Newman, a culinary anthropologist, it seems as though the main components for the Nanaimo Bar (an unbaked chocolate cake covered in icing) were coming together in the late 40s. The earliest recipe for the modern incarnation seem to have appeared in the Nanaimo Hospital auxillary cookbook in 1953, suggesting that the staff had adapted the recipe into its current form.
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To go back a little further, where did the town of Nanaimo get its name? It was a mispronunciation of the native word for the region (in the Hul'qumi'num language), which was Snuneymuxw, meaning 'gathering place'.
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