Get ready to see something nasty in the woodshed, because this week we're talking about Cold Comfort Farm! Join us to learn about 1920s Kenya, horrible Jell-O dishes, and the Girl Guides. Plus, Sofia delivers a tutorial on reading tea leaves, which Jamie fails in spectacular fashion.

Sources:

1920s Kenya:

Brett L. Shadle, The souls of white folk: White settlers in Kenya, 1900s-1920s (Manchester University Press, 2015), https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv18b5hjh . Marc H. Dawson, "The 1920s Anti-Yaws Campaigns and Colonial Medical Policy in Kenya," The International Journal of African Historical Studies 20, no. 3 (1987): 417-35. https://www.jstor.org/stable/219687 C.J.D. Duder and C.P. Youe, "Paice's Place: Race and Politics in Nanyuki District, Kenya, in the 1920s," African Affairs 93, no. 371 (April 1994): 253-78. https://www.jstor.org/stable/723844 Martin S. Shanguhyia, "Integrating African Traditions in Environmental Control in Western Kenya: Contradictions and Failure in Colonial Policy, 1920-1963," The International Journal of African Historical Studies 49, no.1 (2016): 23-52. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44715441 John Overton, "The Origins of the Kikuyu Land Problem: Land Alienation and Land Use in Kiambu, Kenya, 1895-1920," African Studies Review 31, no.2 (September 1988): 109-26. https://www.jstor.org/stable/524421

Reading Tea Leaves:

Laurel Dalrymple, "For Centuries, People Have Searched For Answers In The Bottom Of A Tea Cup," NPR (1 September 2015), https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/09/01/434621010/for-centuries-people-have-searched-for-answers-in-the-bottom-of-a-tea-cup . Cicely Kent, Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves: How to Read Your Fate in a Teacup (New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1922. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Telling_Fortunes_by_Tea_Leaves/lrY2y1zHnWoC?hl=en&gbpv=0 Nicholas J. Crowley and Charles William Sharpe, "An old fortune-teller is reading a young woman's fortune by looking at tea leaves at the bottom of a cup." Engravings (1842). https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.24858455

Film Background:

Roger Ebert, "Cold Comfort Farm," RogerEbert.com (24 May 1996). https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/cold-comfort-farm-1996 Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1071769-cold_comfort_farm Wiki for John Schlesinger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Schlesinger Wiki for the film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Comfort_Farm_(film)

Jell-O and Jellies:

Macedoine and Other Eccentric Jellies, Food History Jottings: http://foodhistorjottings.blogspot.com/2013/06/macedoine-and-other-eccentric-victorian.html A High Victorian Dessert at Harewood: https://www.historicfood.com/events%202009-10.html Brette Warshaw, "Fancy Jello Dishes During the Great Depression," Food52, available at https://food52.com/blog/7616-fancy-jell-o-during-the-great-depression Sarah Grey, "The Social History of Jell-o Salad: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon," Serious Eats, available at https://www.seriouseats.com/history-of-jell-o-salad Emma Grahn and Caitlin Kearney, "Tasting the 1930s: An Experiment with Congealed Salads and Other One-Dish Wonders," National Museum of American History, available at https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/tasting-1930s-experiment-congealed-salads-and-other-one-dish-wonders Carolyn Wyman, "Jello: A Biography," Harvest Books, 2001.

Girl Guides:

Richard A. Voeltz, "The Antidote to Khaki Fever? The Expansion of British Girl Guides During the First World War," Journal of Contemporary History 27, 4 (1992) "100 Years of Girl Guides," The Guardian, available at https://www.theguardian.com/society/gallery/2009/aug/21/girl-guides-centenary