All Stirred Up: Suffrage Cookbooks, Food, and the Battle for Women's Right to Vote

Name: All Stirred Up: Suffrage Cookbooks, Food, and the Battle for Women's Right to Vote
Price: 16.79 USD
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Author: Laura Kumin
ISBN: 9781643134529

In honor of the centenary of the 19th Amendment comes a delectable new book that reveals a new side to the history of the suffrage movement! We all likely conjure up a similar image of the women’s suffrage movement: picket signs, red carnations, militant marches through the streets. But, ever courageous and creative, suffragists also carried their radical message into America’s homes wrapped in food wisdom, through cookbooks, which ingenuously packaged political strategy into already existent social communities. These cookbooks gave suffragists a chance to reach out to women on their own terms, in nonthreatening and accessible ways.

Laura Kumin, the author of The Hamilton Cookbook, expands this forgotten history showing us that, in spite of massive opposition, these women brilliantly wove charm and wit into their message. She also shows that these suffragettes were far from the militant, stern caricatures their detractors made them out to be. Filled with actual historic recipes (“mix the crust with tact and velvet gloves, using no sarcasm, especially with the upper crust”) that evoke the spirited flavor of feminism and food movements, All Stirred Up re-activates the taste of an era and carries us back through time.