Margaret Carr (writer)

Each day, thousands of women read Carr's "Cooking Chat" to learn about the ever-evolving nature of food and its methods of consumption in the twentieth-century.

[5] As more and more people gained access to home refrigeration, electric stoves, and freezing, Carr wrote to her readership new methodologies to best use these recent innovations to convenience their lives.

[5] As the appreciation for cuisines of multiple nationalities grew in Canada throughout the 1960s, such as the influx of new Chinese restaurants across the country, Carr provided recipes, advice, and recommended cookbooks to her readership that reflected this trend.

[5] Carr also brought attention to Dorothy Allen Gray's 1963 cookbook, Fare Exchange,[5] which highlighted Canada's new multiculturalism[6] by gathering recipes from Canadians of various cultural backgrounds.

[4] One such example, as noted by the Canadian food historian Dorothy Duncan, was Carr's May 1954 reflection on the continual popularity of tea in Canada.

[3] On 5 May 1954, it was announced in the Toronto Star that Carr would be flying to Denmark with eleven other food editors from North America as a guest of the Danish Government.

[3] For this tour, Carr had the opportunity to first go to New York City for a farewell lunch at the Copenhagen restaurant where she met the president of the Scandinavian Airlines and the Danish Consul General.

From there, the food editors traveled to Copenhagen and were invited by the Danish government to tour palaces, dairies, fish canneries, bacon and ham factories, and other plants in Denmark whose goods were shipped to Canada for export in 1954.