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.
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.
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