Fashionably Ate

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...

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 ...

We've talked home canning  before, and we've talked rationing and refashioning in WWII before -- now we're bringing it all together to talk about canned goods and factory fashion in 1940s Canada. As we did the last time we talked about this period, we're switching up our roles -- Steph's taking fashion this month, looking at women's factory uniforms, and Torey's taking food, talking about industrial canning and how it changed the food landscape.  What we're obsessed with in history Torey : Reading old archived newsletters and basking in the knowledge that the effort she's spent to preserve minutiae may not have been wasted Steph : Resistance Women by Jennifer Chiaverini - a tough and relevant read. Thanks for listening! Find us online: Instagram  @fashionablyateshow Facebook  and  Pinterest  @fashionablyate Email us  at  fashionablyateshow@gmail.com Check our facts Fashion Women Are Warriors , National Film Board of Canada, 1942. ...

We're heading eastward this month, friends, talking cableknit sweaters and codfish dinners. As the non-vegetarian of the pair, Steph took on the cooking this month, coming out of a coddy ordeal with some very edible and nostalgic codballs. Torey may not cook, but she sure does knit, and she is HAPPY to talk about cables for as long as anyone will let her. What we're obsessed with in history Torey : Ravelry's recent no-Trump policy announcement, and the attending conversations around racism in knitting communities Steph : The Delineator on archive.org , and the wonderful Victorian outfit she's going to make! Thanks for listening! Find us online: Instagram  @fashionablyateshow Facebook  and  Pinterest  @fashionablyate Email us  at  fashionablyateshow@gmail.com Check our facts: Fashion History of Aran Sweaters . Aran Sweater Market, Ireland. The history of hand-knitting . Victoria & Albert Museum. The history of knitting pt. 2: Madonnas, Sto...

We're back! And I swear there's a method to our non-sequitur topics this month. We're starting off with eyebrows, those face-defining fuzzy bits, and talking about how eyebrows changed through mid-century Canada. Taking our cue from the era, Steph sorted through miles of old Chatelaine magazine issues to find out a) who's wearing those eyebrows and b) what they're eating. The answer to the former is very glamorous and the answer to the second is really not. What we're obsessed with in history Torey : An absolute wealth of a timeline at foodtimeline.org Steph : A fascinating and infuriating book:  21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by Bob Joseph Thanks for listening! Find us online: Instagram  @fashionablyateshow Facebook  and  Pinterest  @fashionablyate Email us  at  fashionablyateshow@gmail.com Check our facts: Fashion The History of Women and their Eyeb...

We're taking a hike this month and heading north. Torey's talking fashion on the trails to the gold rush, and Steph's talking about the science of sourdough. We both try our hand at an honest-to-goodness sourdough starter, with...surprising success, actually. Your browser does not support the audio element. Thanks for listening! Find us online: Instagram  @fashionablyateshow Facebook  and  Pinterest  @fashionablyate Email us  at  fashionablyateshow@gmail.com Check our facts: Fashion What to Wear to the Klondike: Outfitting Women for the Gold Rush by Barbara E. Kelcey, University of Manitoba. Material Culture Review , 1996. Dawson City Sourdough Starter and Sourdough Bread , Parks Canada Heritage Gourmet Recipes Clothing of the Gold Miners in the 1850s , by Ruth Lang for Our Everyday Life, September 2017. Klondike Gold Rush , The Canadian Encyclopedia Kate Carmack - Shaaw Tláa , Smithsonian National Postal Museum Shaaw Tláa (Kate Ca...

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 ...

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. Your browser does not support the audio element. Thanks for listening! Find us online...

This month we dove headfirst into the wonderful world of short hair, which we both love dearly, and the slightly-more-difficult-to-stomach world of invalid cooking, which only a historian could love. Both of us have long relationships with our short hair, so we explore what rocking a pixie meant in mid-19th century Canada and how that evolved. Short hair as a choice you make yourself can be powerful, as we both know, but it can also be done to you, as the result of trauma or a loss of agency. Illness is one of those traumas, and one with a deep culinary history, so we try out some of Mrs Beeton's recipes for invalid cooking. Turns out: drinking an egg is almost always going to be disgusting. What we're obsessed with in history Steph : All the fascinating research for a historical murder mystery program coming up at the Nanaimo Museum March-August 2019, as well as  recent ceremonies honouring Louis Levi Oakes , the last living WWII Mohawk code talker. Torey : The Chris...

One of the many names for a cobbler: Apple John This month we're diving deep into the history of a little Ontario town built by one of the biggest shoe companies in the world. We're also fully committing to the pun game in our food segment, making — you guessed it — cobbler. Many thanks to Erin Baxter and the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto for their willingness to chat with us and for providing such a valuable resource. What we're obsessed with in history Steph : An upcoming exhibit at the Beatty Museum , and specifically an in-development, augmented reality experience that will help put collection pieces into virtual context. Much inspiration for her own work! Torey : A 2016 event at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London that featured one of my favourite podcasts. Turns out there's not much of a mark left on the internet from a one-night event two years ago, but you can find a description of the event on Facebook (and I'll always recommend Friends at ...

"A stylish mourning wrap" from the Ladies' Home Journal, February 1892 Torey takes the reins this month, getting into why hair brooches were a cool thing, the importance of "reading" a mourner's clothing at the turn of the century, and how all of that changed in The Great War. She also attempted a deep dive into defining "comfort food," had some inconclusive lasagne adventures, and took a detour to the Oka Crisis as a result. Do you have go-to sympathy meals or food to turn to when comfort is hard to come by? Let us know--we'd love to hear about it. Your browser does not support the audio element. Thanks for listening! Find us online: Instagram  @fashionablyateshow Facebook  and  Pinterest  @fashionablyate Email us  at  fashionablyateshow@gmail.com Check our facts Food  Cooking for Others: A guide to giving sympathy meals from Simple Bites, a Montreal food blog How Paul Dewar is living and dying with love and community...

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'...

"Canadian Prohibition: That Leaky Apartment Above" We're sipping on some very old-fashioned cocktails this month as we dive into the history of Prohibition in Canada--which, as it turns out, is way more complicated than we'd expected. Torey's got thoughts on thoughts on corsets and flapper dresses, and Steph's found recipes enough to keep us tipsy for days. Torey's obsessed with: the meaning of QEII's jewelry , peripheral though it may be Steph's obsessed with: Back in Time for Dinner (again! Even though she has some thoughts on their historical accuracy...) Your browser does not support the audio element. Thanks for listening! Find us online: Instagram  @fashionablyateshow Facebook  and  Pinterest  @fashionablyate Email us  at  fashionablyateshow@gmail.com Check our facts Temperance and Prohibition The Canadian Encyclopedia: Prohibition The Rise and Fall of Prohibition in Canada (Part One) The Rise and Fall of Prohib...

Friends, it is summer. It is hot. And we are thanking our past selves for planning a show all about ice cream and swimming. Torey got real into Toronto's swim history this month. Expect a whirlwind history of bathing suits and a lengthy meditation on social change. Steph found out much more than expected about the nebulous history of ice cream, as well as a selection of CanLit that references the treat. We both tried making our own ice cream from recipes c. 1904-1909, with mixed results, as ever. Your browser does not support the audio element. Thanks for listening! Find us online: Instagram  @fashionablyateshow Facebook  and  Pinterest  @fashionablyate Email us  at  fashionablyateshow@gmail.com Check our facts Fashion BlogTO: What beaches used to look like in Toronto  and A brief history of the Sunnyside swimming pool Victoriana.com's History of bathing suits Sunnyside Pavilion History (including reference to the free st...

Reunited, and it feels so good! Torey visited Steph in BC and we went on a sweet adventure. We explored the mysterious history of the Nanaimo bar, the resident dessert of Nanaimo, BC. This is Nanaimo's butter tart: lots of butter and a little controversy. We also attempted to complete some of the Nanaimo Bar Trail with live tastings, recorded straight from the field - and we briefly lost Jake along the way. Your browser does not support the audio element. 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 us a star rating or review. We'd love the feedback. Check our facts   Joyce Hardcastle's winning Nanaimo Bar recipe " Notes from the Nanaimo Bar Trail ", LL Newman, Canadian Food Studie...

We've been looking forward to this episode for a long time, folks: we're rationing and refashioning all over the place. Steph's taking the fashion reins and doing a marvelous job of it, ending up with a work dress fit for a 20th-century woman. Torey's deep into ration history and evangelizing about her family's wartime cake. 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 us a star rating or review. We'd love the feedback. Check our facts Fashion Make and mend for victory T he National Film Board: Stitch and Save . (Cartoon with a pair of scissors fighting some clothes and cutting them down to different clothing. All set to music, and line animations. It’s weird,but shows what they could do.) W...

Carnophobes, fear no more. This month is all about the veggies. We're looking at the history of vegetarianism in Canada, especially out Steph's way in B.C. where an influx of Doukhobors meant a spike in vegetarianism in the early 1900s. As a well-seasoned vegetarian, Torey's handling the culinary history this month. Steph dove into the culture of Doukhobor textiles and came out with a wealth of information. 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 us a star rating or review. We'd love the feedback. Check our facts: Song: Steph was wrong, don’t @ her. There’s only one rock song she could find that mentions the Doukhobors: “Ferdinand the Impostor” by The Band. It’s definitely not what she was ...

Are you in the club? The butter tart club? The one that every Canadian (or at least Ontarian) is automatically born into? Yes, today we're talking about our favourite and most controversial pastry. Raisins? Nuts? Plain? Runny/firm? What's the deal? Does the first known recorded butter tart recipe answer any of these questions? Inspired by that very first recipe, we're also talking about another one-time Canadian/Ontarian behemoth: Eaton's! Specifically, Eaton's catalogues. Torey could read those things for days. What we're obsessed with in history: Torey: BBC's A Stitch in Time series (not available in Canada, but you can find full episodes on YouTube ) Steph: The Fabric Of Our Land: Salish Weaving - a workshop at the Museum of Anthropology led by Chief Janice George and Buddy Joseph. Steph attended in February and Torey is trying VERY hard not to get jealous. Thanks for listening! Find us online: Instagram  @fashionablyateshow Facebook  and ...

Fizzy bubbles in a very non-medicinal ice cream float. This month we're flashing back to the 1950s and peeking behind the picket fence stereotype. With Valentine's Day approaching, we're talking love, romance, gender roles, and how all these things shook out in post-war Canada. In fashion, Torey's preparing for date night by trying to emulate some classic '50s hairdos. There are complications. In food, we're making ice cream floats (or "sodas," as some folks apparently say). Steph's got all the details on the history of this former medicine, and she's also outdone herself with a dizzying array of replicas. Steph is obsessed with: Very well-funded BBC documentaries and very fun-to-watch NFB films Torey is obsessed with: the Toronto Public Library's new streaming service provider, Kanopy , and its array of documentaries. Anita: Speaking Truth to Power is looking especially relevant. Thanks for listening! Find us online: ...

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...