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PHOTO: Christopher Lewis/For Postmedia News, left, and Vauve Press; The Antarctic Book of Cooking and Cleaning by Wendy Trusler, left, and Carol Devine pictured at Merchants of Green Coffee in Toronto
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Originally published on February 19, 2014; canada.com
Originally published on February 19, 2014; canada.com
Wendy Trusler had cooked for many hungry tree planters in the Canadian boreal forest; she knew how to feed people under the constraints of remote locales. Her work in the bush had shown that, in the right hands, food can be a nourishing morale booster that goes well beyond mere survival. As it turned out, Trusler, also a visual artist and food stylist, had just the skills Carol Devine was looking for in an Antarctic expedition cook.