Fashionably Ate

Congratulations, everyone: we made it through 2017. To celebrate, we’re looking at New Years’ Eves gone by. Specifically, we’re comparing the weird fear/optimism hybrid of the Y2K age with that of a century prior. Torey dove into the fascinating world of Y2K fashion and tried to get her mind around a comparison with the Victorian fashions of 1900. She also managed to completely ruin coffee by turning it into jelly. Meanwhile, Steph met with success trying to replicate an unexpectedly Canadian appetizer for NYE 1999: sushi! Steph is obsessed with: Lauren Rossi, Virtuous Cortesan (@virtuouscourtesan) on Instagram Torey is obsessed with: @cloud9cookery on Twitter Thanks for listening! Find us online: Instagram  @fashionablyateshow Facebook  and  Pinterest  @fashionablyate Email us at  fashionablyateshow@gmail.com And if you haven't already found us on iTunes, now's your chance! Download and subscribe -- and if you would be so kind, please leave u...

This month we’re staying chronologically close to home, hopping back just a few decades to the roaring '90s. We chose two happy memories of the period --grunge fashion and the McPizza--and set about to see what they have in common. Torey tried to connect with her inner Kurt Cobain and ended up with only a mild existential crisis in a Value Village. Steph met with much more certain success, finding a veritable double for the McPizza crust recipe (that cornmeal mouthfeel!) and tracing its dubious roots through fast food history. Steph is obsessed with: Beckoned By the Sea: Women at work on theCascadia Coast by Sylvia Taylor Torey is obsessed with: Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise andReign of the Unruly Woman by Anne Helen Peterson. Thanks for listening! Find us online: Instagram  @fashionablyateshow Facebook and Pinterest @fashionablyate Email us at fashionablyateshow@gmail.com And if you haven't already found us on iTunes, now's your chance! Downloa...

Have we found the ideal intersection of food and fabric? This month we’re talking about things we can eat that can also make our clothes pretty, and Torey is feeling like a real-life history scientist in her kitchen. Meanwhile Steph is going deep into the Acadian history behind a very delicious veggie soup recipe. Statue of Evangeline and Memorial Church, Grand-Pré, Nova Scotia. Photo by Charles Hoffman on Flickr. Used with Creative Commons license. Torey is obsessed with a book -- one she was reminded of when a coworker requested a list of Canadian history book recommendations (be still, our hearts). A Little History of Canada  by H.V. Nelles is at the top of the list -- and scroll to the end of this post for the whole list. Steph is obsessed with new-to-her resources at her new place of work, the Nanaimo Museum. She's educating herself about the history of residential schools in Canada and is particularly interested in one book by a residential school survivor: My Name...

Listeners, us heritage nerds are in our element this month. We’re playing on the dual meaning of “preserve” and talking jams, jellies, and the Canadian Conservation Institute – an obvious grouping. Torey took a field trip to the Textile Museum of Canada and will not stop talking about it, while Steph is equally enamoured with a book by a one Mrs. Beeton , who’s teaching her how to keep a 19 th century household. Torey is obsessed with: Franklin: Death in the Ice , an exhibit currently at the Greenwich Museum (coming to the Canadian Museum of History in March 2018) and its spectacular companion book. Steph is obsessed with: the aforementioned Beeton’s Book of Household Management , a workplace text so good she bought it for herself. (Steph has a cool workplace.) Listen online or find us on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, or wherever you get your podcasts. Thanks for listening! Fashionably Ate is on Instagram and Facebook @fashionablyateshow, and we've got photos fr...

This month we're exploring the fascinating and strange world of Duqesne Island, as shown by the newly released 1970s CBC documentary The Neddeaus of Duqesne Island. This never-before-seen footage depicts an absolutely definitely real family living on an isolated island in northern Ontario, immersed in a culture all their own. The Neddeaus provide more than enough fodder for a food-and-fashion deep-dive. We're eating all things potatoes (really, so many potatoes); wondering how on Earth this family got ahold of such modern raincoats; and meditating on what a symbol the Neddeaus really are for Canada, identity, and the human condition. Thanks for listening! Fashionably Ate is on Instagram and Facebook @fashionablyateshow, and we've got photos from this and every episode on Pinterest @fashionablyate. Feel free to email us at fashionablyateshow@gmail.com, and if you haven't already found us on iTunes, now's your chance! Download and subscribe -- and if you would...

This week on Fashionably Ate we’re flashing back 50 years to the Expo 67 celebrations in Montreal. Along with our usual food and fashion we also get into a discussion about memory – what will people remember about Canada150 in 50 years? In fashion, Torey is all about hostess uniforms (especially the futuristic raincoats). In food, we’ve each chosen two dishes from an Expo pavilion: Swiss fondue and Kirshwasser wine tart, candy corn from the La Ronde fairground, and Ukranian cold Borscht. For once, everything is a success. For our What We’re Obsessed With in History segment, Torey is obsessed with the Spacing store and resources (www.spacing.ca) and Steph is obsessed with an old-fashioned oven she’s learning to use at Fort Langley National Historic Site. Thanks for listening! Fashionably Ate is on Instagram and Facebook @fashionablyateshow, and we've got photos from this and every episode on Pinterest @fashionablyate. Feel free to email us at fashionablyateshow@gmail.com, ...

It’s a month of big changes here at Fashionably Ate, and we’ve got an episode themed around one of them: Steph’s new workplace, Fort Langley, BC! We’ve used the Parks Canada Heritage Gourmet app (see the link below) to find a Fort-related recipe, to some surprising success, and Torey’s researching the iconic Hudson Bay blanket. Torey's obsessed with: Indigenous Walks in Ottawa, led by Jaime Koebel -- check out their Facebook page, Indigenous Walking Tours . Steph's obsessed with: the story of a fantastic female hiker in BC in the 1910s, showing up her fellow (male) hikers on an arduous mountain trail. Thanks for listening! Fashionably Ate is on Instagram and Facebook @fashionablyateshow, and we've got photos from this and every episode on Pinterest @fashionablyate. Feel free to email us at fashionablyateshow@gmail.com, and if you haven't already found us on iTunes, now's your chance! Download and subscribe -- and if you would be so kind, please leav...

This month we’re making the best of what we’ve got in both food and fashion. Inspired by a cookbook of recipes from L.M. Montgomery’s kitchen, we’re experimenting with turn-of-the-century skills and talking about all things Anne. In Fashion we’re talking techniques for mending and darning clothes, and how Torey has fared in trying to bring these once-common skills into her own life. Food-wise we’re cooking up a storm from Aunt Maud’s Recipe Book: From the Kitchen of LM Montgomery. We’ve got some hits (mmm, doughnuts) and some misses (…lemon pie is harder than it looks, okay?) but it all makes for good conversation. In Things We're Obsessed With in History, Torey is really looking forward to Jane's Walks in her new city this weekend (May 5-7) and Steph is on-brand and all Anne. She's especially excited about the CBC's new Anne series, streaming online now. If you have not already subscribed to us on iTunes or Google Play, now is the time! And if you would be so ...

This month we’re taking a seasonal approach and focusing on  all things maple . And, of course, what apparel comes to mind when the  opportunity to visit a sugar shack arises? Flannel ! We’re looking at the  history of the fabric and why it’s so darn useful this time of year. We’re also  taking advantage of Steph’s move across the country to experiment with a few  different recipes, including microwave maple pie! (#marchmaplemadness) Instead of our usual "what we're obsessed with in history" segment, we're jumping on NPR's #trypod train and recommending hashtags for you to share with your friends and spread the word about podcasts. Torey is recommending Spilled Milk , the comedy food podcast that got her into podcasts, and Steph is recommending Singing Bones , a podcast about the secret history of fairy tales. If you have not already subscribed to us on iTunes or Google Play, now is the time! And if you would be so kind as to leave us a star rating or...

Hello, all you Vitamin-C-rich folks out there! This month we’re taking inspiration from a long-cured disease--scurvy! We’re talking age of sail, sauerkraut, and all things antiscorbutic. All this is inspired by stories of European Arctic exploration, and so we’re also looking at cold-weather survival gear. Food-wise, we’re bravely trying out some homemade sauerkraut (with, spoiler alert, pleasantly surprising results) and talking about its long history. We’re also testing our knowledge of things high in vitamin C. And if you think you know what it takes to avoid the curse of the scurv’ yourself, check out our Facebook page before you listen to try to beat our guesses. Listen: If you cannot see the audio controls, your browser does not support the audio element Thanks for listening! If you haven’t found us on iTunes already, now’s your chance! Download and subscribe—and if you would be so kind, please leave us a star rating or review. We’d love the feedback. Fashionab...

Hey hi halloumi! On this episode Steph and Torey are all about Eastern Ontarian/Quebecois cheese and the people who make it. Torey has embarked on a potentially lifelong quest to answer the question: what did early cheesemakers wear? It’s a harder task than you’d think. Meanwhile, Steph has all the cheese history and science you could want, from ancient cow stomachs to modern degrees in cheese. And, of course, we eat a lot of cheese—seven kinds, in fact—with The Boys, who are bringing the answers to questions you didn’t know you had. Make sure to listen to find out: if Quebec were a cheese, what cheese would it be? If you haven’t found us on iTunes already, now’s your chance! Download and subscribe—and if you would be so kind, please leave us a star rating or review. We’d love the feedback. Fashionably Ate is on Instagram and Facebook , and we’ve got photos from this and every episode on Pinterest. Check our facts : Fashion : Canadian Museum of History: An Onlin...