"Outdoor Salads" and "Salades Pour Pique-Nique" prints (1969)

One of my favourite parts of the Agricultural Arts collection is discovering, new, gentle, niches that the Federal and Provincial governments used to insert themselves into. For example: salads. Through the years both levels of government have published on the subject a few times; take a look a Salads All the Year Round put out by Ontario in 1951 or the Canada-wide Les Salades from 1964 for examples of this. 

This pamphlet duo, though, wins top prizes for being extra niche. I didn't quite understand what was meant by "outdoor salads" until I read the French version's title of "salades pour pique-niques." Yes, this is a pamphlet about salads that Canadians can make that are presumably made with Canadian produce and are optimally consumed in a picnic setting. The drawing and typography is excellent, too. 

A booklet cover reproduction available at 12x24" or 24x48" on Epson Enhanced Matte 192 gsm paper printed with Epson UltraChrome XD2 archival ink. Sold in an open edition, unframed. The Canada Department of Agriculture and Ministère de l'Agriculture du Canada wordmarks on these covers have been replaced with the words ”Canadian Home Economics” and "Économie Domestique Canadienne" due to Section 9 of the Canadian Trademarks Act.