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Ep. 2: Towards a Bertonian Cuisine

Episode 2: Towards a Bertonian Cuisine



 For our second episode we’re diving into Pierre and Laura Berton’s Canadian Food Guide and surfacing with some skill-testing recipes. We’re shucking oysters, gelling some jello and deep-frying wonderful things—all on the wise advice of the Bertons.

This book is such a treasure that this episode will be the first in a series of Bertonian episodes. For the first in the series, we’re using the Bertons’ arguments for what makes cuisine “Canadian” to figure out what might constitute Canadian fashion as well. Hint: it’s a bit of a stretch.

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THE BERTONS
Janet Berton obituary -http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thestar/obituary.aspx?pid=176433029
Janet Berton article - http://www.yorkregion.com/community-story/6159485-janet-walker-berton-a-local-hero-/
Janet Berton fonds finding aid - https://www.vaughan.ca/services/vaughan_archives/findingaids/VaughanDocuments/Janet%20Berton%20Fonds.pdf

OYSTER COOKING
“Broil on a pan of wet rock salt” – http://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/cooking-tips-techniques/cooking/six-types-salt
In A Half Shell blog – http://www.inahalfshell.com/
About.com How to Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwkAlMg0ors 

OYSTER HISTORY
Oyster Culture in North America – http://www.worldoyster.org/proceeding_pdf/news_17e.pdf
Oyster Production in PEI – http://www.gov.pe.ca/photos/original/FARD_ain18.2005.pdf
Community Museums Association exhibit on oysters in PEI – http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/sgc-cms/expositions-exhibitions/recoltes-harvests/oyster_e/oysterhistory.html
Aquaculture PEI – http://www.aquaculturepei.com/whats_new.php

OYSTER ETHICS
The Case for Eating Oysters – http://www.stanforddaily.com/2015/04/23/the-case-for-eating-oysters/
The Ethical Case for Eating Oysters – https://sentientist.org/2013/05/20/the-ethical-case-for-eating-oysters-and-mussels/
Consider the Oyster – http://www.slate.com/articles/life/food/2010/04/consider_the_oyster.html
Oysters and Vegetarianism – https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/why-i-eat-oysters-and-mussels-even-though-im-otherwise-vegetarian/2016/02/04/d284fd4e-c9c4-11e5-88ff-e2d1b4289c2f_story.html
The Meaning of Sustainable Labeled Seafood
– http://www.npr.org/series/171717418/the-meaning-of-sustainable-labeled-seafood

WOOL
Canadian Cooperative Wool Growers Ltd – http://www.wool.ca/about_wool
Briggs and Little – http://www.briggsandlittle.com/products/wool-knitting-yarns/
Woolmark – http://www.woolmark.com/history/
Custom Woolen Mills – http://www.customwoolenmills.com/wool_yarn
Canadian Encyclopedia – http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/sheep-farming/

HOME MAKERS AND THE BERTONIAN IDEALS
Betty Crocker commercial and how advertising companies developed and
promoted the ideal of the Happy Home Maker in the mid-20th century - http://www.cbc.ca/ageofpersuasion/episode/season-5/2011/04/22/season-five-the-happy-homemaker-how-advertising-invented-the-housewife-part-one-1/

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