Episode 330: Women's Work: History of Community Cookbooks
A Taste of the Past ›52:27 | May 30th, 2019
Community cookbooks—you know, those spiral bound collections with each contributor credited--began as a way for women to come together and share recipes and to support a common cause be it a local chu...Show More
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mm recommended:Apr 20th, 2020
An interview with a person who collects community cookbooks! Those spiral bound recipe books is a time capsule for a community, causes they care about, their aspirations and cultures. Interesting fact: most community cookbook recipes are "celebratory" recipes (i.e. food for special occasions), becau...Show More
hsfargisApr 21st, 2020
@mm This sounds so great! I inherited a bunch of those cookbooks from my grandma. This makes me want to bust them out and make a casserole!
mmApr 21st, 2020
@hsfargis !!! That's amazing! Now I want to make a casserole...
epekilis recommended:May 17th, 2020
Because community cookbooks are such grassroots efforts, they can help document the story of small towns and marginalized communities. Until comparatively recently - say, just over 100 years in Canada and the US - women had no independent legal status and had challenges with things like negotiating...Show More