Ep. 27: Marmalade & Marginalia

Marmalade on toast -- hot or cold?

This month, we get into the fascinating world of marginalia in cookbooks - the practice of adding and editing recipes in your cookbooks and recipe cards, and clipping recipes from newspapers, magazines, and sharing recipes in a collection.

We also brew up some sunshine, in the form of tangy, bittersweet marmalade! Steph discovers some charming notes in Mackenzie King's diaries about marmalade and his affirmations as a young person ("Make this a good month"), while Torey looks at the complicated history of scribbled notes in the margins of recipe books everywhere.

What we're obsessed with in history

Steph: Rediscovering the Nancy Drew video games of her youth. (For the article Torey mentioned in response: The Case of the Disappearing Nancy Drew Video Games)
Torey: Her great-aunt Mary's recipe book, chock-full of marginalia.


Thanks for listening! Find us online:
Instagram @fashionablyateshow
Facebook and Pinterest @fashionablyate
Email us at fashionablyateshow@gmail.com

Check our facts:

Fashion

Invention twice-over: The use of marginalia in recipe books by Rhiannon Scarnhorst, The Gallimaufry Project
The Marginal Obsession with Marginalia by Mark O'Connell, The New Yorker
"What I Really Want Is Someone Rolling Around In The Text" by Sam Anderson, The New York Times Magazine
Navigating a New Domesticity: Women, Marginalia, and Cookbooks by Rachel A. Snell, The Recipes Project

Food

Eat marmalade on cold toast, says scientist by Harry Wallop, The Telegraph
Parks Canada Heritage Gourmet Recipes: Orange Marmalade
Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King, at Library and Archives Canada
2017 Culinary Historians of Canada Mad for Marmalade