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Women & Food
By Slow Food USA
By Slow Food USA
We hope that you'll enjoy this list of books that highlight women's roles in the food world from farming and food production to cooking and culinary literacy. Please let us know if you have suggestions to share!
Why We Cook: Women on Food, Identity, and Connection
Lindsay Gardner
$27.50 $25.58This book has everything your dual food and book loving heart could ever want - recipes, musings, essays, food illustrations, data (in pie chart form) from home cook surveys, interviews and more! From big names (Ruth Reichl, Dorie Greenspan, Carla Hall, Amanda Cohen), to midwest icons (Abra Berens - Chef at Michigan’s Granor Farm and author of Ruffage, Jeni Britton Bauer - Founder of Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams, Maya-Camille Broussard - Chicago’s Justice of the Pies, Lisa Ludwinski - Detroit’s Sister Pie, Zoe Schor - Chicago’s Split Rail ), farmers , authors and chefs as radical activists for change (Leah Penniman, Julia Turshen, Priya Krishna, Rachel Khong); there’s something for everyone in this compilation of stories and recipes that celebrate a love of breaking bread and sharing a meal with others - not to mention the food memories and heritage that are preserved by way of cooking and eating. Plus with such a diverse list of women in varying realms of “food,” you just might learn about a new chef/farmer/journalist/author/cook that wasn’t previously on your radar to admire. -Katie
Salty: Lessons on Eating, Drinking, and Living from Revolutionary Women
Alissa Wilkinson
$25.99 $24.17
In Her Kitchen: Stories and Recipes from Grandmas Around the World: A Cookbook
Gabriele Galimberti
$35.00 $32.55
Heirloom Kitchen: Heritage Recipes and Family Stories from the Tables of Immigrant Women
Anna Francese Gass
$35.00 $32.55https://ediblevermont.ediblecommunities.com/recipes/edible-reads-heirloom-kitchen-heritage-recipes-family-stories-tables-immigrant-women
We Are La Cocina: Recipes in Pursuit of the American Dream (Global Cooking, International Cookbook, Immigrant Cookbook)
Leticia Landa and Caleb Zigas
$29.95 $27.85
Hallelujah! the Welcome Table: A Lifetime of Memories with Recipes
Maya Angelou
$22.00A delightful cookbook to read slowly over time, if you so please. Each chapter of 1-7 recipes starts with an entertaining story that connects to some or all of the food. I would venture to say that it’s 50% short stories and 50% recipes. An oldie but goodie.
Coconuts and Collards: Recipes and Stories from Puerto Rico to the Deep South
Von Diaz
$28.00Let's talk about home. Hot food in the kitchen. Vibrant colors. Familiar ingredients that all seem to get along. Von Diaz bridges two worlds, her birthplace of Puerto Rico and the Atlanta she grew up in. While her recipes are sensational, they are also friendly and down-to-earth. Coconuts and Collards is a memoir told through taste and smell as much as through photos and prose. It's a cookbook that makes Puerto Rico and the South feel like home, wherever you're from. -Katie
Women on Food: Charlotte Druckman and 115 Writers, Chefs, Critics, Television Stars, and Eaters
Charlotte Druckman
$30.00Exploring issues from the #MeToo movement, gender bias in division of labor and the workplace, and the underrepresentation of women of color in leadership, to cultural trends including food and travel shows, the intersection of fashion and food, and the evolution of food writing in the last few decades, Women on Food brings together food’s most vital female voices. -Margaret