The Time Machine EXTRA-SODE 4: Dr. Vanessa Warne
This is my conversation with Dr. Vanessa Warne from The University of Manitoba on Victorians and Vegetarianism in The Time Machine!
With Charlene Van Buekenhout (host)
Discussion topics by Dr. Vanessa Warne
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Dalnavert Artifact Tie-in
Beef (and meat more widely) was highly valued in the Victorian diet. The reality of the rapid industrialization of meat production in this time is being pushed aside in this idyllic, agricultural image on a platter made specifically for serving a family-sized roast.
Cow platter, c. 1875, based on a painting by T. Boublec.