Ep. 8: Make Do(ughnuts) and Mend

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.

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Check our facts!

FASHION

Make Do and Mend: Darning – from Colette Patterns

Darning Mushroom – from the BBC’s A History of the World

Make a Pattern Darning Sampler – Allison Dey Malacaria on the Sew Mama Sew blog

Darning – from the Nordic Needle, including examples of Japanese sashiko and Ukranian nyzynkia

The Rise of Mending: How Britain learned to repair clothes again – from the Guardian

FOOD

Aunt Maud’s Recipe Book: From the Kitchen of L.M. Montgomery with contributions from Kelly and Elaine Crawford

How to Make Your Own Raspberry Cordial – from anneofgreengables.com

LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY

Mary Henley Rubio and Elizabeth Hillman Waterston, The Complete Journals of L.M.Montgomery: The PEI Years, 1901-1911 (Volume II of her journals)

For all things Maud, including the LM Montgomery Institute: www.lmmontgomery.ca

Dawes, Terry “Why Anne of Green Gables is Big in Japan”

Somers, Sean “Anne of Green Gables / Akage no An: The Flowers of a Quiet Happiness”

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Ep. 33: Obsessions: Lace Knits and Hazelnuts

We're going off-script this month and treating ourselves to a whole episode about our current obsessions. No rhyme, no reason, no era - just really cool history. Torey's facing her fears and diving into an obsession with lace knitting (and/or knitted lace, depending on who you're talking to). Meanwhile, Steph is all in on hazelnuts, and we both make some fabulous nutty dishes. Thanks for listening! Find us online: Instagram @fashionablyateshow Facebook and Pinterest @fashionablyate Email us at fashionablyateshow@gmail.com Check our facts Food History of gianduja: Chocolate hazelnut spread from Hazelnut Hill Roland del Monte's pâte à tartiner recipe from Canadian Geographic, by Alexandra Pope Praline paste recipe from roadtopastry.com Mixed herbs and hazelnut roast potatoes recipe from spice trekkers.com Dinner in Memory of George Washington, given by the George Washington-Sulgrave Institution, February 1926 . From NYPL "What's On ...

Ep. 28: Deer Catharine

This month we're going further back than this podcast has gone before: decades before Mrs Beeton, there was Catharine Parr Traill, a woman whose letters we study and whose symbolism we have a hard time coming to grips with. To everyone's surprise, our fashion segment this month actually covers fashion: we're looking at the late Regency period and the relatively loose dresses that came with it. In another podcast first, we're also taking a stab at some meaty dishes. Both Torey and Steph fry up some venison steaks, and we talk about the history and ethics of game meat in Canada. Less controversially, we also serve up some cranberry sauce and tarts, to mixed reviews. What we're obsessed with in history Steph : An old favourite: Lucy Worsely, an English historian and author, and two of her books: Jane Austen at Home: A Biography and Queen Victoria: Twenty-Four Days that Changed Her Life . Get in that library queue, these books are going fast. Torey : A new ...

Ep. 34: Hello to the Future

Yes, friends, it's true: the time has come for us to leave you. We've spent the last three years in a tumult of food highs (wartime cake!), fashion lows (remember that time I tried to describe how to tie an ascot?), and vice versa (remember that time Steph made a totally gorgeous outfit from a thrifted suit? Legendary.). Now, for our final bow, we're taking a trip back to our first failure, our worst failure, our gloopiest, ickiest, saddest failure: vegetarian jello. For what better way to say goodbye to you, our lovely listeners, than to make good on a three-year-old promise to try agar agar again? This month, we brave our fears and face our old foe, while talking '60s jello and the space-age fashion of the future. We said it all in the episode, but it bears repeating: thank you so much for listening. We've loved making this show. We hope hearing us fumble our way through food and fashion has made you as happy as it has made us. Feel free to find us outside of...

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