Women & Food

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!

Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America

Mayukh Sen

$26.95 $24.79

Seed Sovereignty, Food Security: Women in the Vanguard of the Fight Against GMOs and Corporate Agriculture

$21.95

Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power

Psyche A. Williams-Forson

$35.00

In Her Kitchen: Stories and Recipes from Grandmas Around the World: A Cookbook

Gabriele Galimberti

$35.00 $32.20

Heirloom Kitchen: Heritage Recipes and Family Stories from the Tables of Immigrant Women

Anna Francese Gass

$29.99 $27.59

https://ediblevermont.ediblecommunities.com/recipes/edible-reads-heirloom-kitchen-heritage-recipes-family-stories-tables-immigrant-women

Perfection Salad, 24: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century

Laura Shapiro

$35.94

In Bibi's Kitchen: The Recipes and Stories of Grandmothers from the Eight African Countries That Touch the Indian Ocean [A Cookbook]

Julia Turshen and Hawa Hassan

$35.00 $32.20

We Are La Cocina: Recipes in Pursuit of the American Dream (Global Cooking, International Cookbook, Immigrant Cookbook)

Leticia Landa and Caleb Zigas

$29.95 $27.55

Hallelujah! the Welcome Table: A Lifetime of Memories with Recipes

Maya Angelou

$22.00 $20.24

Coconuts and Collards: Recipes and Stories from Puerto Rico to the Deep South

Von Diaz

$30.00 $27.60

Let'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

Rebel Chef: In Search of What Matters

Dominique Crenn and Emma Brockes

$28.00

Alice Waters and the Trip to Delicious

Jacqueline Briggs Martin and Hayelin Choi

$18.95 $17.43

Women on Food: Charlotte Druckman and 115 Writers, Chefs, Critics, Television Stars, and Eaters

Charlotte Druckman

$30.00 $27.60

Exploring 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