Barbour's General Store sale, such as barley candy and dulse (edible seaweed harvested locally). Barbour's General Store Barbour's General Store is a museum and tourist HUB in Saint John, New Brunswick. It is an authentic 19th-century general store building, preserved and used to recreate a Victorian-era educational experience for visitors. It is located at the intersection of King Street and Prince William Street in the Trinity Royal Historic Preservation Area in the city's uptown. On August 22, 2015 the shop was re-opened to the public as a functioning business and local information centre. The museum was founded in 1967. The store itself was
An Edible History of Humanity the Green Revolution, a breakthrough in farming technologies and techniques that occurred in the 1940s to roughly the 1970 which greatly increased crop yields. Standage told an NPR interviewer that he thinks of food, not as the central motivating force of human history, but as "an invisible fork" that prods humankind. "After all," Standage says, "everything that every person has ever done, throughout history, has literally been fueled by food." "An Edible History of Humanity" generally received both positive and mixed reviews. Tom Jaine of "The Guardian" says that Tom "makes a brilliant stab at bringing sense to the table."