Girls' Lunch
by Julia Andreas and Nicole Hylton
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30. The Little Oven That Could (Burn Your Fingers): The Easy-Bake Oven
30. The Little Oven That Could (Burn Your Fingers): The Easy-Bake Oven
About this podcast
Your mealtime companion/a podcast about food, history, gender, and sexuality. Everyone is welcome at the Girls' Lunch table!
Episodes
The newest 20 of 32 episodes
- 30. The Little Oven That Could (Burn Your Fingers): The Easy-Bake Oven · 1 h 18 minHappy National Easy-Bake Oven Day! In this special hybrid episode, Nicole and Julia learn about the history of the "greatest selling girl's toy since dolls" (virtually) and do a…
- 29. Gambler's Grass: Nori and Seaweed · 1 h 1 minStand back; we're going to try science! In our first "Japan-isode," Nicole takes Julia on a scenic bus tour through the kelp forests to see three colorful characters: brown…
- 28. Girls' Club: "Yesteryear" and the Specter of the Tradwife · 57 minWelcome to our club, welcome to our club! In the first installment of what we expect to be a recurring segment called Girls' Club (or Girls' Lunch Book Club, or Girls' Book Club…
- 27. Have Your Gay and Eat It Too: A Queer History of Cake · 1 h 0 minAs Marie Antoinette definitely once said: Let them serve 💅🏼 cake. In our first standalone episode in literal months, Julia and Nicole talk about what this episode is NOT about…
- 26. Pre-Licked Hershey's Kisses: Hershey, Part 2 · 1 h 9 minWe're back for the chocolate-coated conclusion of our Hershey series! Picking back up at the turn of the 20th century, Nicole and Julia chronicle the Hershey Company's history…
- 25. Milton's Chocolate Corner: Hershey, Part 1 · 1 h 22 minMilton Hershey was not always a chocolate man. But he was, for most of his adult life (and his teens) a candy man. And in his journey from confectioner to chocolatier, Milton had…
- 24. Domestic (Science) Partners: Home Economics, Part 2 · 56 minWelcome 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…
- 23. It's all Coming Up Home Economics: Part 1 · 55 minAfter 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…
- 22. Recipes and Recollections with Jennifer Cognard-Black · 1 h 10 minIn 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…
- 21. Hungry for High Scores: Video Games, Part 2 · 1 h 19 minWould You Like to Load Your Last Save File? >Yes. In Part 2 of our video game series, Nicole and Julia resume play in the 1990s, chronicling some of the great restaurant sims of…
- 20. Hungry for High Scores: Video Games, Part 1 · 1 h 6 minLet's go to the arcade! In part one of our two-part series, Nicole and Julia take you through the cooking games leaderboard and introduce you to some of the genre's "top players"…
- 19. Boobs, Bottles, and Baby Food · 1 h 17 minWe're taking it back to where it all began with this one, and we mean that quite literally, because today we're talking about baby food! In this special episode, Nicole and Julia…
- 18. Botany: The Study of Plants and How to Steal Them · 1 h 22 minEver wondered why we have Hass avocados and Medjool dates at the grocery store? Or why there are Japanese cherry trees all around the Tidal Basin in D.C.? Well, we can thank the…
- 17. Unless You Got Buns, Hun: Hot Dogs · 1 h 9 minCompanion website: hotdogs.expert Hot dog, it's a summer episode in the middle of winter! In this wien-derful successor to our hamburger episode, Nicole and Julia learn…
- 16. RIP Brownie Wise, You Would Have Loved MLMs · 1 h 18 minDoes anyone else pronounce Tupperware as "Tubberware?" No? Just me? Well, in this episode Julia and Nicole travel back to the post-war 50s to learn about the one woman who's…
- 15. Midway Mania: The Carnival and Carnival Food · 1 h 16 minStep right up, step right up! Feast your ears on a true spectacle of food and amusement history! In this episode, stroll through the fairgrounds with Nicole and Julia to learn…
- 14. Big Ag and Brown Bags: School Lunches, Part 2 · 1 h 3 minJulia and Nicole (and David) return for the thrilling conclusion of the history of school lunches! We'll wade through the Cold War, and then in the 60s, things really pop off for…
- 13. Big Ag and Brown Bags: School Lunches, Part 1 · 57 minDo you recall the halcyon days of your youth? The days spent in school, anxiously awaiting the bell, going to find your friends in the lunchroom, the same table every time?…
- 12. How the Burger Hamburglared Its Way Into America's Heart · 1 h 14 minAlternate theme song: "Ai Like Hamburger" by The Idolm@ster Ah, the hamburger. Whether you call it a Steamed Ham, a Royale with Cheese, or a Quarter Pounder, this beefy spheroid…
- 11. Queens of the Supermarket · 1 h 12 minAlternate theme song: "Queen of the Supermarket" by Bruce Springsteen A dream awaits for you in aisle two of this product-packed episode! Join Nicole and Julia as they grocery…
