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)

Would 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 the era. We play some browser-based flash games in the school computer lab instead of doing our math homework, invoke the flaming-eyed wrath of Cooking Mama by failing to separate an egg, and win back our grandparents' bakery from Generic MegaCorp by clicking lots of buttons. Mainly, our goal is to make Papa Louie proud. This episode sponsored by your local Pizza Syndicate, a legitimate business not affiliated with any criminal dealings and/or underground.

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:

• “King’s Candy Crush Saga Hits $20 Billion in Lifetime Revenue,” by Jeffrey Rousseau

• “Food Culture Has Invaded Video Games, and the Results Are Mesmerizing,” by Kat Thompson

• Papa’s Pizzeria website, Flipline Studios

• Delicious Pixels: Food In Video Games, by Agata Waszkiewicz

• Casual Games Market Report (2007), by Casual Games Association

• Venba website, Visai Games

Let'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" in the 1970s and 1980s. We'll see the formation of a lot of popular mechanics and gameplay that persist in cooking and food-related video games today. We'll also talk about girl(y) games, representation, and the time Julia was personally victimized at a GameStop circa 2008. Don't forget your quarters!

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:

• “Tapper,” Museum of the Game
• “Chili's Big Smasher BurgerTime Video Game Levels Up Fast-Food Face-Off with the Chance to Win Free Burgers for Life” Press Release
• Tweet by Garry Kitchen about the origin of Pressure Cooker
• High Score, dir. France Costrel
• “Short Order” review by NESFriend on YouTube
• “Why Doesn’t The Industry Make Good Girls’ Games?” by Moon Channel on Youtube
• Delicious Pixels: Food In Video Games, by Agata Waszkiewicz
• Gamer Girls: 25 Women Who Built the Video Game Industry, by Mary Kenney