Ep. 23: Funerals Part I - Shrouds and Sandwiches

Season 3 of Fashionably Ate is here! We've been doing this podcast for two years now, and still loving it. Thanks for listening!

In this episode, we talk about death, grief, and dressing the deceased, mostly in the fashion section. If this isn't your thing, you can skip right to the food at around 21 minutes in.

Torey talks about the history of burial shrouds, winding sheets, and dressing the dead in their best/favourite clothes as the funerary industry has changed. Steph struggled to find details of diverse food practices at funerals, but thanks to listeners she managed to talk about a few. Party sandwiches and rugulach made up our platters this month.

This is part one of a two-part series on funerals and the clothing and food traditions associated with them. Part two will focus on mourning clothes and comfort dishes brought to mourning families by their communities. If you have experienced funerals in communities other than white, Christian-background ones, we'd love to hear from you! Drop us a line through gmail, Facebook or Instagram.

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Fashion

Burial Shrouds, Juleigh Clark, Colonial Williamsburg
What your future burial outfit says about you, Katie Heaney, Racked.com
Shanawdithit's Burial Shroud, Megan Samms, Live Textiles
Home funerals restore intimacy to grieving rituals, Adriana Barton, The Globe and Mail
Black Cemeteries Force Us to Re-examine Our History With Slavery, Charmaine A. Nelson, The Walrus

Food

Canadian Funeral Customs and Traditions, funeral.com
Gillian Poulter, “What’s traditional about ‘the traditional funeral’? Funeral rituals and the evolution of the funeral industry in Nova Scotia.”Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. Vol 22, No. 1. 2011
My love affair with the party sandwich, Gayle Macdonald, The Globe and Mail
Shiva Food and Catering, shiva.com

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