Wilkinson, A. (2022). Salty: Lessons on eating, drinking, and living from revolutionary women. Broadleaf Books.
Alissa Wilkinson is a writer and critic. She earned an M.F.A in creative nonfiction from Seattle Pacific University, an M.A. in humanities and social thought from New York University, and a B.S. in information technology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
A delicious, luxurious volume highlighting nine women described as revolutionary. Imagine a dinner party with Maya Angelou, Alice B. Toklas, Hannah Arendt, Octavia Butler, Elizabeth David, Ella Baker, Agnes Varda, Laurie Colwin, and Edna Lewis. She highlights each woman's contributions, the integral relationship each had with food or hospitality including a unique recipe for each woman, and a reading list to learn more. I LOVE books introducing the lives of women who I might not ordinarily learn about. She says, "a dinner party is an excuse to create and deepen friendships, to form alliances, to encounter new ideas, to stretch yourself. It's an invitation to risk something, to put yourself out there just a little, with the comforting universal activity of eating dinner. . . a dinner party creates a universe." The way she wrote this book served as introductory, she assumes a host role connecting those in the room to each other. Bravo! She sums it up so well, "In each woman I see grace breaking through, enabling them to face an often frightening world and give courage to their readers, their audiences, their communities. I see something I want to be and learn."
You will enjoy this book if like food writing, women's history, thinking about the power of hospitality. I loved this book!
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Alissa Wilkinson’s “Salty” features chapters such as:
- Edna Lewis: Rewriting the Story
- Octavia Butler: The Human Contradiction
- Ella Baker: Hamburgers, Whiskey, and Radical Hospitality
- Maya Angelou: The Performance of Hope
An Inside Look at Salty: Lessons on Eating, Drinking, and Living from Revolutionary Women
Excerpt from the introduction: Invitation to the Feast
If you could have a dinner party with anyone, dead or alive, who would you choose?
My answer is here in Salty, though I’ve cheated and picked nine women instead of one, and some of them would probably bring a guest, too. You may have met some of these women before through their books, art, food, and ideas. Or they may all be strangers to you. That’s okay. That’s the idea. That’s why I’ve asked you here.
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Wilkinson, A. (2022). Salty: Lessons on eating, drinking, and living from revolutionary women. Broadleaf Books.Alissa Wilkinson is a writer and critic. She earned an M.F.A in creative nonfiction from Seattle Pacific University, an M.A. in humanities and social thought from New York University, and a B.S. in information technology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.A delicious, luxurious volume highlighting nine women described as revolutionary. Imagine a dinner party with Maya Angelou, Alice B. Toklas, Hannah Arendt, Octavia Butler, Elizabeth David, Ella Baker, Agnes Varda, Laurie Colwin, and Edna Lewis. She highlights each woman's contributions, the integral relationship each had with food or hospitality including a unique recipe for each woman, and a reading list to learn more. I LOVE books introducing the lives of women who I might not ordinarily learn about. She says, "a dinner party is an excuse to create and deepen friendships, to form alliances, to encounter new ideas, to stretch yourself. It's an invitation to risk something, to put yourself out there just a little, with the comforting universal activity of eating dinner. . . a dinner party creates a universe." The way she wrote this book served as introductory, she assumes a host role connecting those in the room to each other. Bravo! She sums it up so well, "In each woman I see grace breaking through, enabling them to face an often frightening world and give courage to their readers, their audiences, their communities. I see something I want to be and learn."You will enjoy this book if like food writing, women's history, thinking about the power of hospitality. I loved this book!
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Wilkinson, A. (2022). Salty: Lessons on eating, drinking, and living from revolutionary women. Broadleaf Books.
Alissa Wilkinson is a writer and critic. She earned an M.F.A in creative nonfiction from Seattle Pacific University, an M.A. in humanities and social thought from New York University, and a B.S. in information technology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
A delicious, luxurious volume highlighting nine women described as revolutionary. Imagine a dinner party with Maya Angelou, Alice B. Toklas, Hannah Arendt, Octavia Butler, Elizabeth David, Ella Baker, Agnes Varda, Laurie Colwin, and Edna Lewis. She highlights each woman's contributions, the integral relationship each had with food or hospitality including a unique recipe for each woman, and a reading list to learn more. I LOVE books introducing the lives of women who I might not ordinarily learn about. She says, "a dinner party is an excuse to create and deepen friendships, to form alliances, to encounter new ideas, to stretch yourself. It's an invitation to risk something, to put yourself out there just a little, with the comforting universal activity of eating dinner. . . a dinner party creates a universe." The way she wrote this book served as introductory, she assumes a host role connecting those in the room to each other. Bravo! She sums it up so well, "In each woman I see grace breaking through, enabling them to face an often frightening world and give courage to their readers, their audiences, their communities. I see something I want to be and learn."
You will enjoy this book if like food writing, women's history, thinking about the power of hospitality. I loved this book!
Alissa Wilkinson is a writer and critic. She earned an M.F.A in creative nonfiction from Seattle Pacific University, an M.A. in humanities and social thought from New York University, and a B.S. in information technology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
A delicious, luxurious volume highlighting nine women described as revolutionary. Imagine a dinner party with Maya Angelou, Alice B. Toklas, Hannah Arendt, Octavia Butler, Elizabeth David, Ella Baker, Agnes Varda, Laurie Colwin, and Edna Lewis. She highlights each woman's contributions, the integral relationship each had with food or hospitality including a unique recipe for each woman, and a reading list to learn more. I LOVE books introducing the lives of women who I might not ordinarily learn about. She says, "a dinner party is an excuse to create and deepen friendships, to form alliances, to encounter new ideas, to stretch yourself. It's an invitation to risk something, to put yourself out there just a little, with the comforting universal activity of eating dinner. . . a dinner party creates a universe." The way she wrote this book served as introductory, she assumes a host role connecting those in the room to each other. Bravo! She sums it up so well, "In each woman I see grace breaking through, enabling them to face an often frightening world and give courage to their readers, their audiences, their communities. I see something I want to be and learn."
You will enjoy this book if like food writing, women's history, thinking about the power of hospitality. I loved this book!
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