Welcome back to Home Economics class! Did you keep your flour baby/egg/baby doll/real human baby alive over the last month? Maybe you'd like to teach it some deeply flawed early Child Psychology? In Part 2, you'll learn how Home Ec went from subverting to perpetuating traditional gender roles in the postwar era due to an unlikely culprit. We'll dive into the Home Ec that exists in the popular imagination, and the "Marriage Course" that now exists in Julia and Nicole's nightmares. And, finally, we will put a baked sweet potato at the top of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, where it rightfully belongs.

Our theme song is "Red Onions" by Louie Zong, off of his album Vegetable Soul: https://louiezong.bandcamp.com/album/vegetable-soul

We're on Instagram @girlslunchpod. Nicole's website is nicolehylton.com. Have an episode suggestion or question? You can email us at girlslunchpodcast@gmail.com and we will add it to our chaotic list of future episode subjects.

Links to Sources:

• "Rethinking Home Economics: Women and the History of a Profession," ed. by Sarah J. Stage and Virginia B. Vincenti

• "The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live," by Danielle Dreilinger

• HEARTH - Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition, History

• "The Bureau of Home Economics: How Women Harnessed the Power of Science and Nutrition to Help Fight WWII and Improve Life on the Home Front," by Erika Whinihan

• "Giant Food's First Supermarket", by Lawrence Bush

• "Carlisle Origin of Giant," by Ryan Burke

After a brief hiatus, Nicole and Julia are back at it again; yelling about food, feminism, and how the United States' culture is just good marketing.

In this episode, we discover how everything is Home Economics, you know, that one class your mom took in the 80's. We discuss the origins of the movement, it's rise and fall of influence in the American government, and maybe some ethically quesitonable decisions around babies. Come for the history, stay for the lava cakes, and leave after the bell rings.

Our theme song is "Red Onions" by Louie Zong, off of his album Vegetable Soul: https://louiezong.bandcamp.com/album/vegetable-soul

We're on Instagram @girlslunchpod. Nicole's website is nicolehylton.com. Have an episode suggestion or question? You can email us at girlslunchpodcast@gmail.com and we will add it to our chaotic list of future episode subjects.

Links to Sources:

• "Rethinking Home Economics: Women and the History of a Profession" by by Sarah J. Stage (Editor), Virginia B. Vincenti (Editor)

• "The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live" by Danielle Dreilinger

• HEARTH - Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition, History

• The Bureau of Home Economics: How Women Harnessed the Power of Science and Nutrition to Help Fight WWII and Improve Life on the Home Front

• "DE GUSTIBUS; The Cakes That Take New York Erupt With Molten Chocolate," by Florence Fabricant for The New York Times

• "How the Chocolate Lava Cake, the Hottest Dessert of the '90s, Lost Its Cool," by Khushbu Shah for Thrillist

In this very special guest episode, Nicole and Julia are joined by their friend and mentor Dr. Jennifer Cognard-Black, Professor of English at St. Mary's College of Maryland. Nicole, Julia, and JCB discuss the history of the recipe and the sharing of recipes as a feminist act. We also talk, like, A LOT about Fried Green Tomatoes, and play a very Victorian version of the "Is it Nail Polish" game.

Our theme song is "Red Onions" by Louie Zong, off of his album Vegetable Soul: https://louiezong.bandcamp.com/album/vegetable-soul

We're on Instagram @girlslunchpod. Nicole's website is nicolehylton.com. Have an episode suggestion or question? You can email us at girlslunchpodcast@gmail.com and we will add it to our chaotic list of future episode subjects.

Jennifer's Work:

• Books That Cook: The Making of a Literary Meal, ed. by Melissa Goldthwaite and Jennifer Cognard-Black
• Good Eats: 32 Writers on Eating Ethically, ed. by Jennifer Cognard-Black and Melissa Goldthwaite
• Margaret Atwood: A Modern Mythmaker, by Jennifer Cognard-Black (audiobook)
• Books That Cook: Food and Fiction, by Jennifer Cognard-Black (audiobook)

Additional Sources:

• "The Making of The Modern American Recipe," by Helen Zoe Veit
• Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, by Fannie Flagg
• Victorian Varnish Nail Polish
• The Victorian Cookbook, by Michelle Berriedale-Johnson
• The Victorian Way (Cookbook and YouTube channel)