Salty : lessons on eating, drinking, and living from revolutionary women / Alissa Wilkinson.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Minneapolis, MN : Broadleaf Books, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 194 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1506473555
- 9781506473550
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Main Library | NonFiction | 641.3002 W686 | Available | 33111010849269 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
If you could have a dinner party with anyone dead or alive, who would it be?
That's the question film critic and food writer Alissa Wilkinson answered as she gathered a hypothetical table of women who challenged norms and defied conventional wisdom.
Ella Baker, Alice B. Toklas, Hannah Arendt, Octavia Butler, Agnes Varda, Elizabeth David, Edna Lewis, Maya Angelou, Laurie Colwin: these smart, engaging, revolutionary, and creative twentieth-century women were all profoundly influenced by their own relationships to food, drink, and other elements of sustenance.
In Salty , Wilkinson explores the ways food managed to root these women into their various callings. For some, it was cultivating perseverance in the face of hardship. For others, it was nurturing a freedom to act, even in the face of opposition, toward justice and equality. For others, it was an examination of what it means to be human with all its desire, heartbreak, sacrifice, isolation, and liberty.
Salty is Alissa Wilkinson's invitation to you. Join these sharp, empowered, and often subversive women and discover how to live with courage, agency, grace, smarts, snark, saltiness, and sometimes feasting--even in uncertain times. Ultimately you will leave this table with a greater understanding of food, drink, gathering, thinking, loving, and navigating the world.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
Edna Lewis: rewriting the story -- Laurie Colwin: ordinary messed-up feasts -- Agnés Varda: seeing faces in the scraps -- Ella Baker: hamburgers, whiskey, and radical hospitality -- Elizabeth David: dirty words and future joy -- Octavia Butler: the human contradiction -- Hannah Arendt: the subversive feast of friends -- Alice B. Toklas: let me be an artist -- Maya Angelou: the performance of hope.