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.

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.

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.

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.

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 midcentury 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.

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 [email protected] 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 Carmack), Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park Food Wood, Ed and Jean Wood. Classic Sourdoughs: A Home Baker’s Handbook. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press. 2011 (1989). Bread-making in the Gold Rush Sourdough: More than a Bread by Sharon Vail for npr.org, September 2006 120-year-old Yukon Gold Rush sourdough heads to Belgian sourdough library by Jane Sponagle for CBC News, May 2018 Dawson City Sourdough Starter and Sourdough Bread, Parks Canada Heritage Gourmet Recipes I Married the Klondike by Laura Berton

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 novel with fun nods to female scientists in history: The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee (the sequel/companion to The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue, also a fun read). Your browser does not support the audio element. Thanks for listening! Find us online: Instagram @fashionablyateshow Facebook and Pinterest @fashionablyate Email us at [email protected] Check our facts: The female emigrant's guide, and hints on Canadian housekeeping by Catharine Parr Traill, 1854. Available through Archive.org. Fashion From fireplace cooking to maple, survival guide for women immigrants to 19-century Canada still rings true, by Laura Brehaut in the National Post, June 2017 Errington, Elizabeth Jane. Wives and Mothers, School Mistresses and Scullery Maids: Working Women in Upper Canada, 1790-1840. Kingston: McGill-Queen's Press, 1995. Available through Google Books. Women's Fashion during the Regency Era (1810s to 1830s) by Carmen Cadeau, January 2018 Hiawatha First Nation: History Food Consuming Environmental History: Rethinking Wild Game Meat by Mike Commito on ActiveHistory.ca, January 2012. Hunted game is mostly illegal, but chefs argue for the vibrant taste only found outside the farm by Jon Sufrin in the Globe and Mail, April 2016.

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: Instagram @fashionablyateshow Facebook and Pinterest @fashionablyate Email us at [email protected] 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

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 Christmas by Lamplight program at Black Creek Pioneer Village, and also a source that turned out to only be tangentially related to this month's topic but was too good not to talk about: Dressing and Addressing the Mental Patient: The Uses of Clothing in the Admission, Care and Employment of Residents in English Provincial Mental Hospitals, c. 1860-1960 by Nicole Baur and Joseph Melling, in Textile History. Your browser does not support the audio element. Thanks for listening! Find us online: Instagram @fashionablyateshow Facebook and Pinterest @fashionablyate Email us at [email protected] Check our facts: Fashion Untangling the Tale of the Seven Sutherland Sisters and Their 37 Feet of Hair, by Lisa Hix in Collectors Weekly, September 2013 "Dream Girls of a Dim Decade" Strange Stories of the Sutherland Sisters, from The American Weekly, November 1947 Encyclopedia of Hair: A Cultural History by Victoria Sherrow, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006 Victorian Hairstyles: A short history, in photos, by Kathleen Harris on whizzpast.com Why long hair is a burden to Civil War era women (1862): A letter to Louis A Godey, publisher of Godey's Lady's Book Laurie Penny on hair: Why patriarchy feats the scissors - for women, short hair is a political statement, January 2014 A Brief Look at the Empowering History of the Female Buzz Cut by Jenna Igneri in Nylon, May 2017 Food Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management (1861) Cooking for invalids: wine, brandy, porter and champagne for all by Louise Ni Chríodáin in The Irish Times, August 2018 The history of germ theory by Jemima Hodkinson in BigPicture, January 2015 The germ theory timeline by William C Campbell Florence Nightingale on History.com, last updated August 2018 Florence Nightingale by Louse Selanders in The Encyclopedia Brittanica

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 the Table to anyone who loves storytelling.) Your browser does not support the audio element. Thanks for listening! Find us online: Instagram @fashionablyateshow Facebook and Pinterest @fashionablyate Email us at [email protected] Check our facts: Fashion The Batas and Batawa: Thomas John Bata in The Canadian Encyclopedia Batawa History Sonja Bata, Whose Museum of Shoes Tells a Story, Dies at 91 in The New York Times, March 2018 Mrs Bata Cobbles a New Town, Globe and Mail, August 2006 About Our Founder, from the Bata Shoe Museum Shoes in general: The Arctic Landscape: Canada, from A Step Into The Bata Shoe Museum Look and Listen, from The Bata Shoe Museum A History of Shoes, from the Victoria and Albert Museum Beth Levine, from The Virtual Shoe Museum Footwear Industry, from The Canadian Encyclopedia On Canadian Ground: Stories of Footwear in Early Canada, from The Virtual Museum Food "History and Legends of Cobbler" from What's Cooking America "Cobbler" from the Online Etymology Dictionary "Blueberry Grunt – a Maritime Dessert" from The Culinary Chase "Apple John with Nutmeg Sauce" from Saltscapes, a Maritime Canada magazine "Metropolitan Life Cookbook" published in Ottawa, 1918 Parks Canada Heritage Gourmet (also available as an app)