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Salty : Lessons on Eating, Drinking, and Living from Revolutionary Women.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilkinson, Alissa.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Food--Social aspects.
- Food.
- Women--Conduct of life.
- Women.
- Women--Biography.
- Dinners and dining--History.
- Dinners and dining.
- Food habits.
- Food writing.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Recipes.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (203 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, Minnesota : 1517 Media, 2022.
- Summary:
- Film critic and food writer Alissa Wilkinson sits down with a hypothetical table of smart, engaging, revolutionary women of the twentieth century to explore the ways food centered each woman's creative work. As we meet these multifaceted women, we learn how to live with courage, smarts, saltiness, and sometimes feasting--even in uncertain times.
- Contents:
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Invitation to the Feast
- Chapter One: Edna Lewis: Rewriting the Story
- Feast: Boiled Greens à la Freetown, with Pork
- More Salt with Edna Lewis
- Chapter Two: Laurie Colwin: Ordinary, Messed-Up Feasts
- Feast: Lentil Soup and No-Knead Bread
- More Salt with Laurie Colwin
- Chapter Three: Agnès Varda: Seeing Faces in the Scraps
- Feast: Roasted Chicken and Potatoes
- More Salt with Agnès Varda
- Chapter Four: Ella Baker: Hamburgers, Whiskey, and Radical Hospitality
- Feast: Louisiana-Style Shrimp Salad
- More Salt with Ella Baker
- Chapter Five: Elizabeth David: Dirty Words and Future Joy
- Feast: Moules Marinière, Three Ways
- More Salt with Elizabeth David
- Chapter Six: Octavia Butler: The Human Contradiction
- Feast: Vegetarian Chili with Winter Squash
- More Salt with Octavia Butler
- Chapter Seven: Hannah Arendt: The Subversive Feast of Friends
- Feast A Stiff Gibson
- More Salt with Hannah Arendt
- Chapter Eight Alice B. Toklas: Let Me Be an Artist
- Feast: Brisk and Beautiful Gazpacho
- More Salt with Alice B. Toklas
- Chapter Nine: Maya Angelou: The Performance of Hope
- Feast: Poached Pears in Port Wine
- More Salt with Maya Angelou
- Acknowledgements
- No-Stress, No-Knead Bread
- Feast: Louisiana-Style Shrimp Salad.
- More Salt with Ella Baker
- Acknowledgements.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Wilkinson, Alissa Salty
- ISBN:
- 9781506473567
- OCLC:
- 1321798476
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