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Whoever Said Dykes Cant Cook?
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/*******-cookbook
How ******* Luminaries Put Together a Groundbreaking Cookbook "Whoever Said Dykes Cant Cook? combined art, food, and fundraising. BY RACHEL HOPE CLEVES APRIL 26, 2021 "IN THE UNITED STATES, WOMENS groups have published fundraising cookbooks since the Civil War. Carefully compiled booklets filled with recipes can be powerful money-making tools for all kinds of causes. So when Maya Contenta and Victoria Ramstetter published a fundraising cookbook in 1983, it was not unusual in terms of strategy. But one glance at the title makes it obvious that Contenta and Ramstetter were indeed breaking new ground. The Whoever Said Dykes Cant Cook? Cookbook, published in support of the Cincinnati ******* Activist Bureau, ushered in a new genre of fundraising cookbooks for queer organizations. Whoever Said Dykes Cant Cook? was actually not the first ******* cookbook. That honor belongs to The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook (1954), a memoir-with-recipes about Toklass relationship with the modernist writer Gertrude Stein. Whoever Said Dykes Cant Cook? was also preceded by The Political Palate (1980), a cookbook published by the *******-feminist Bloodroot Collective restaurant in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Contenta and Ramstetter included recipes from The Political Palate in their own cookbook, and followed the restaurants lead in only publishing vegetarian recipes. But Contenta and Ramstetter appear to have been the first to publish a community cookbook in support of a *** or ******* organization. Attempts had been made before. Amazons, Inc., a ******* community group in Philadelphia, floated the idea of publishing a cookbook as a fundraiser in 1978, but the project never came to fruition. And the International ******* Information Service, based in Amsterdam, published a metaphorical cookbook in 1982, but its recipes focused on how to organize and coordinate a social movement, not on how to cook. For Contenta and Ramstetter, their passion for food was part of their advocacy. Contenta had worked as a cook at a ******* vegetarian restaurant in Chicago for the previous four years, before relocating to Cincinnati to manage the feminist collective Crazy Ladies Bookstore. I love to eat, I love to cook and even better I love to share these, and other good times with my sweet wimmin friends, Contenta wrote in her back-cover bio. Ramstetter was a poet, novelist, and essayist, whose column Is Sex a Political Act? appeared in each issue of the Cincinnati ******* Activist Bureaus official publication, Dinah. Imagery of food suffused her writing, as in her poem ******* Epic, published in the Berkeley-based ******* arts periodical Sinister Wisdom, where she described a lover who smelled of oranges and sex. A booming ******* alternative-publishing scene in the early 1980s was critical to the Ramstetters and Contentas enterprise. Looking for book content, they placed advertisements in WomaNews, Big Mama Rag, and the New Womens Times. The notices, published in the spring and summer of 1982, asked readers to send in recipes, drawings, poems, jokes and aphrodisiacs. The advertisements worked. We never expected to receive so many contributionsfrom near and far, the editors remarked in the cookbooks introduction. Many entries came from leading figures in ******* arts and letters. Tee Corinne, whose photographs of female nudes could be found hanging on the walls of many a ******* household in the early "80s, contributed a recipe for Zana-bread (gluten-free, dairy-free, inspired by a friend with food allergies), and a poem titled The flours that Bloom in the Spring. She also sent in a recipe titled Jeannette H. Foster Memorial Breakfast, named for the ******* bibliographer who had spent 40 years researching and compiling the critical text Sex Variant Women in Literature. In fact, Ramstetter and Contenta dedicated the cookbook to Foster, who had recently died of old age. Before her passing, Corinne had gone to visit Foster in her nursing home and was delighted by her still active eye for attractive women. Artists Diane Ayott, Judith Masur, Zana, and Jennifer Weston all contributed sketches, resulting in a richly illustrated cookbook. Ayott also sent in recipes for vegetarian fettuccine and eggplant casserole (a real filler!). Weston sent in a sketch of a woman standing in the kitchen holding a wooden spoon carved into a heart, with a heart-shaped cake on a cake stand. Masur drew the cover, featuring a curvy woman standing at a cinder-block table laid with a salad and a cake, holding a birthday card, and being kissed on each cheek by two more curvy wimmin. The cover captured the books spirit, treating cooking as a sensual, romantic, embodied pleasure. .. ******* writers and activists also mailed in contributions. Barbara Grier, former editor of The Ladder, the official publication of the ******* civil rights group The Daughters of Bilitis and founder of the Naiad Press, offered up her recipe for lasagna. Gayle Rubin and Pat (now Patrick) Califia, leading theorists and writers in the sex-positive wing of the ******* feminist movement, contributed a recipe for Noodles with Hot Peanut Sauce.. Activist and writer Barbara Deming, a prominent opponent of the Vietnam War, didnt send in a recipe, but she did lend a typewriter to the editors. Many of the recipes were selected for their suitability to be served up at what Contenta and Ramstetter called those sensual, magnificent feasts: ******* potlucks. During the 1970s and "80s, ******* groups frequently hosted potlucks as community-building events. But not all recipes were so practical in spirit. Some contributors took a more playful approach. Rochelle H. DuBois, an author and board-member of the Feminist Writers Guild, contributed a recipe for an Angel cake. The ingredients were 1 angel, 1 dream, ¾ full moon, 1 night, 2 brown eyes, 10-12 chocolate roses, ½ bottle of champagne, 1 kiss, [and] a secret meeting-place. Despite the outpouring of support, The Whoever Said Dykes Cant Cook? Cookbook wasnt a huge bestseller, and the editors only printed 300 copies. But it did set a precedent. Other queer organizations followed Contenta and Ramstetters example in the years that followed. The San Francisco *** and ******* Congregation Shaar Zahav published Out of our Kitchen Closets: San Francisco *** Jewish Cooking in 1987 as a fundraiser for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. (A recipe for Latkes nouvelle California called for blue corn tortilla crumbs, and suggested garnishes of hamachi sushi, kiwi, raspberry chutney, and mint yogurt.) San Franciscos ***-affirming Metropolitan Community Church followed with its own community cookbook in 1995. And the tradition lives on today, judging from a recent call for submissions for a cookbook to raise money for queer families affected by COVID-19, put out by Anchochaba Publishing, a Chickasaw two spirit-owned publisher. The editors and contributors to The Whoever Said Dykes Cant Cook? Cookbook never stopped contributing to queer arts and letters. After briefly relocating to Florida and launching The Sea Wench Times, Ramstetter returned to Cincinnati and helped found the Ohio ******* Archives, in its first home above the (now-defunct) Crazy Ladies Bookstore. Meanwhile, Contenta managed the bookstore and remained involved in the Cincinnati art scene. As for the contributors, Gayle Rubin published Thinking Sex in 1984, a foundational text in sexuality studies, and soon after co-founded the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco. Patrick Califia, who now identifies as a trans man, became a leading figure in the BDSM scene and published countless newspaper columns, short stories, and novels, while Diane Ayott and Judith Masur went on to thriving art practices. As groundbreaking as it was, Whoever Said Dykes Cant Cook? ended up as a single delicious chapter in the lives of these artists and activists..." |
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Sqwertz wrote:
> https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/*******-cookbook > > How ******* Luminaries Put Together a Groundbreaking Cookbook > > "Whoever Said Dykes Cant Cook? combined art, food, and fundraising. > > BY RACHEL HOPE CLEVES > APRIL 26, 2021 > > "IN THE UNITED STATES, WOMENS groups have published fundraising > cookbooks since the Civil War. Carefully compiled booklets filled > with recipes can be powerful money-making tools for all kinds of > causes. So when Maya Contenta and Victoria Ramstetter published a > fundraising cookbook in 1983, it was not unusual in terms of > strategy. But one glance at the title makes it obvious that Contenta > and Ramstetter were indeed breaking new ground. The Whoever Said > Dykes Cant Cook? Cookbook, published in support of the Cincinnati > ******* Activist Bureau, ushered in a new genre of fundraising > cookbooks for queer organizations. > > Whoever Said Dykes Cant Cook? was actually not the first ******* > cookbook. That honor belongs to The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook (1954), > a memoir-with-recipes about Toklass relationship with the modernist > writer Gertrude Stein. Whoever Said Dykes Cant Cook? was also > preceded by The Political Palate (1980), a cookbook published by the > *******-feminist Bloodroot Collective restaurant in Bridgeport, > Connecticut. Contenta and Ramstetter included recipes from The > Political Palate in their own cookbook, and followed the restaurants > lead in only publishing vegetarian recipes. > > But Contenta and Ramstetter appear to have been the first to publish > a community cookbook in support of a *** or ******* organization. > Attempts had been made before. Amazons, Inc., a ******* community > group in Philadelphia, floated the idea of publishing a cookbook as a > fundraiser in 1978, but the project never came to fruition. And the > International ******* Information Service, based in Amsterdam, > published a metaphorical cookbook in 1982, but its recipes focused > on how to organize and coordinate a social movement, not on how to > cook. > > For Contenta and Ramstetter, their passion for food was part of their > advocacy. Contenta had worked as a cook at a ******* vegetarian > restaurant in Chicago for the previous four years, before relocating > to Cincinnati to manage the feminist collective Crazy Ladies > Bookstore. I love to eat, I love to cook and even better I love to > share these, and other good times with my sweet wimmin friends, > Contenta wrote in her back-cover bio. Ramstetter was a poet, > novelist, and essayist, whose column Is Sex a Political Act? > appeared in each issue of the Cincinnati ******* Activist Bureaus > official publication, Dinah. Imagery of food suffused her writing, as > in her poem ******* Epic, published in the Berkeley-based ******* > arts periodical Sinister Wisdom, where she described a lover who > smelled of oranges and sex. > > A booming ******* alternative-publishing scene in the early 1980s was > critical to the Ramstetters and Contentas enterprise. Looking for > book content, they placed advertisements in WomaNews, Big Mama Rag, > and the New Womens Times. The notices, published in the spring and > summer of 1982, asked readers to send in recipes, drawings, poems, > jokes and aphrodisiacs. The advertisements worked. We never expected > to receive so many contributionsfrom near and far, the editors > remarked in the cookbooks introduction. Many entries came from > leading figures in ******* arts and letters. > > Tee Corinne, whose photographs of female nudes could be found hanging > on the walls of many a ******* household in the early "80s, > contributed a recipe for Zana-bread (gluten-free, dairy-free, > inspired by a friend with food allergies), and a poem titled The > flours that Bloom in the Spring. She also sent in a recipe titled > Jeannette H. Foster Memorial Breakfast, named for the ******* > bibliographer who had spent 40 years researching and compiling the > critical text Sex Variant Women in Literature. > > In fact, Ramstetter and Contenta dedicated the cookbook to Foster, > who had recently died of old age. Before her passing, Corinne had > gone to visit Foster in her nursing home and was delighted by her > still active eye for attractive women. > > Artists Diane Ayott, Judith Masur, Zana, and Jennifer Weston all > contributed sketches, resulting in a richly illustrated cookbook. > Ayott also sent in recipes for vegetarian fettuccine and eggplant > casserole (a real filler!). Weston sent in a sketch of a woman > standing in the kitchen holding a wooden spoon carved into a heart, > with a heart-shaped cake on a cake stand. Masur drew the cover, > featuring a curvy woman standing at a cinder-block table laid with a > salad and a cake, holding a birthday card, and being kissed on each > cheek by two more curvy wimmin. The cover captured the books > spirit, treating cooking as a sensual, romantic, embodied pleasure. > . ******* writers and activists also mailed in contributions. > Barbara Grier, former editor of The Ladder, the official publication > of the ******* civil rights group The Daughters of Bilitis and > founder of the Naiad Press, offered up her recipe for lasagna. Gayle > Rubin and Pat (now Patrick) Califia, leading theorists and writers in > the sex-positive wing of the ******* feminist movement, contributed a > recipe for Noodles with Hot Peanut Sauce. Activist and writer > Barbara Deming, a prominent opponent of the Vietnam War, didnt send > in a recipe, but she did lend a typewriter to the editors. > > Many of the recipes were selected for their suitability to be served > up at what Contenta and Ramstetter called those sensual, magnificent > feasts: ******* potlucks. During the 1970s and "80s, ******* groups > frequently hosted potlucks as community-building events. But not all > recipes were so practical in spirit. Some contributors took a more > playful approach. Rochelle H. DuBois, an author and board-member of > the Feminist Writers Guild, contributed a recipe for an Angel cake. > The ingredients were 1 angel, 1 dream, ¾ full moon, 1 night, 2 brown > eyes, 10-12 chocolate roses, ½ bottle of champagne, 1 kiss, [and] a > secret meeting-place. > > Despite the outpouring of support, The Whoever Said Dykes Cant Cook? > Cookbook wasnt a huge bestseller, and the editors only printed 300 > copies. But it did set a precedent. Other queer organizations > followed Contenta and Ramstetters example in the years that > followed. The San Francisco *** and ******* Congregation Shaar Zahav > published Out of our Kitchen Closets: San Francisco *** Jewish > Cooking in 1987 as a fundraiser for the San Francisco AIDS > Foundation. (A recipe for Latkes nouvelle California called for > blue corn tortilla crumbs, and suggested garnishes of hamachi sushi, > kiwi, raspberry chutney, and mint yogurt.) San Franciscos > ***-affirming Metropolitan Community Church followed with its own > community cookbook in 1995. And the tradition lives on today, judging > from a recent call for submissions for a cookbook to raise money for > queer families affected by COVID-19, put out by Anchochaba > Publishing, a Chickasaw two spirit-owned publisher. > > The editors and contributors to The Whoever Said Dykes Cant Cook? > Cookbook never stopped contributing to queer arts and letters. After > briefly relocating to Florida and launching The Sea Wench Times, > Ramstetter returned to Cincinnati and helped found the Ohio ******* > Archives, in its first home above the (now-defunct) Crazy Ladies > Bookstore. Meanwhile, Contenta managed the bookstore and remained > involved in the Cincinnati art scene. > > As for the contributors, Gayle Rubin published Thinking Sex in > 1984, a foundational text in sexuality studies, and soon after > co-founded the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco. Patrick > Califia, who now identifies as a trans man, became a leading figure > in the BDSM scene and published countless newspaper columns, short > stories, and novels, while Diane Ayott and Judith Masur went on to > thriving art practices. As groundbreaking as it was, Whoever Said > Dykes Cant Cook? ended up as a single delicious chapter in the lives > of these artists and activists..." Ask them, theyre here -- The real Dr. Bruce posts with uni-berlin.de - individual.net |
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> https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/*******-cookbook > > How ******* Luminaries Put Together a Groundbreaking Cookbook > > "Whoever Said Dykes Cant Cook? combined art, food, and fundraising. > > BY RACHEL HOPE CLEVES > APRIL 26, 2021 > > "IN THE UNITED STATES, WOMENS groups have published fundraising > cookbooks since the Civil War. Carefully compiled booklets filled > with recipes can be powerful money-making tools for all kinds of > causes. So when Maya Contenta and Victoria Ramstetter published a > fundraising cookbook in 1983, it was not unusual in terms of > strategy. But one glance at the title makes it obvious that Contenta > and Ramstetter were indeed breaking new ground. The Whoever Said > Dykes Cant Cook? Cookbook, published in support of the Cincinnati > ******* Activist Bureau, ushered in a new genre of fundraising > cookbooks for queer organizations. > > Whoever Said Dykes Cant Cook? was actually not the first ******* > cookbook. That honor belongs to The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook (1954), > a memoir-with-recipes about Toklass relationship with the modernist > writer Gertrude Stein. Whoever Said Dykes Cant Cook? was also > preceded by The Political Palate (1980), a cookbook published by the > *******-feminist Bloodroot Collective restaurant in Bridgeport, > Connecticut. Contenta and Ramstetter included recipes from The > Political Palate in their own cookbook, and followed the restaurants > lead in only publishing vegetarian recipes. > > But Contenta and Ramstetter appear to have been the first to publish > a community cookbook in support of a *** or ******* organization. > Attempts had been made before. Amazons, Inc., a ******* community > group in Philadelphia, floated the idea of publishing a cookbook as a > fundraiser in 1978, but the project never came to fruition. And the > International ******* Information Service, based in Amsterdam, > published a metaphorical cookbook in 1982, but its recipes focused > on how to organize and coordinate a social movement, not on how to > cook. > > For Contenta and Ramstetter, their passion for food was part of their > advocacy. Contenta had worked as a cook at a ******* vegetarian > restaurant in Chicago for the previous four years, before relocating > to Cincinnati to manage the feminist collective Crazy Ladies > Bookstore. I love to eat, I love to cook and even better I love to > share these, and other good times with my sweet wimmin friends, > Contenta wrote in her back-cover bio. Ramstetter was a poet, > novelist, and essayist, whose column Is Sex a Political Act? > appeared in each issue of the Cincinnati ******* Activist Bureaus > official publication, Dinah. Imagery of food suffused her writing, as > in her poem ******* Epic, published in the Berkeley-based ******* > arts periodical Sinister Wisdom, where she described a lover who > smelled of oranges and sex. > > A booming ******* alternative-publishing scene in the early 1980s was > critical to the Ramstetters and Contentas enterprise. Looking for > book content, they placed advertisements in WomaNews, Big Mama Rag, > and the New Womens Times. The notices, published in the spring and > summer of 1982, asked readers to send in recipes, drawings, poems, > jokes and aphrodisiacs. The advertisements worked. We never expected > to receive so many contributionsfrom near and far, the editors > remarked in the cookbooks introduction. Many entries came from > leading figures in ******* arts and letters. > > Tee Corinne, whose photographs of female nudes could be found hanging > on the walls of many a ******* household in the early "80s, > contributed a recipe for Zana-bread (gluten-free, dairy-free, > inspired by a friend with food allergies), and a poem titled The > flours that Bloom in the Spring. She also sent in a recipe titled > Jeannette H. Foster Memorial Breakfast, named for the ******* > bibliographer who had spent 40 years researching and compiling the > critical text Sex Variant Women in Literature. > > In fact, Ramstetter and Contenta dedicated the cookbook to Foster, > who had recently died of old age. Before her passing, Corinne had > gone to visit Foster in her nursing home and was delighted by her > still active eye for attractive women. > > Artists Diane Ayott, Judith Masur, Zana, and Jennifer Weston all > contributed sketches, resulting in a richly illustrated cookbook. > Ayott also sent in recipes for vegetarian fettuccine and eggplant > casserole (a real filler!). Weston sent in a sketch of a woman > standing in the kitchen holding a wooden spoon carved into a heart, > with a heart-shaped cake on a cake stand. Masur drew the cover, > featuring a curvy woman standing at a cinder-block table laid with a > salad and a cake, holding a birthday card, and being kissed on each > cheek by two more curvy wimmin. The cover captured the books > spirit, treating cooking as a sensual, romantic, embodied pleasure. > . ******* writers and activists also mailed in contributions. > Barbara Grier, former editor of The Ladder, the official publication > of the ******* civil rights group The Daughters of Bilitis and > founder of the Naiad Press, offered up her recipe for lasagna. Gayle > Rubin and Pat (now Patrick) Califia, leading theorists and writers in > the sex-positive wing of the ******* feminist movement, contributed a > recipe for Noodles with Hot Peanut Sauce. Activist and writer > Barbara Deming, a prominent opponent of the Vietnam War, didnt send > in a recipe, but she did lend a typewriter to the editors. > > Many of the recipes were selected for their suitability to be served > up at what Contenta and Ramstetter called those sensual, magnificent > feasts: ******* potlucks. During the 1970s and "80s, ******* groups > frequently hosted potlucks as community-building events. But not all > recipes were so practical in spirit. Some contributors took a more > playful approach. Rochelle H. DuBois, an author and board-member of > the Feminist Writers Guild, contributed a recipe for an Angel cake. > The ingredients were 1 angel, 1 dream, ¾ full moon, 1 night, 2 brown > eyes, 10-12 chocolate roses, ½ bottle of champagne, 1 kiss, [and] a > secret meeting-place. > > Despite the outpouring of support, The Whoever Said Dykes Cant Cook? > Cookbook wasnt a huge bestseller, and the editors only printed 300 > copies. But it did set a precedent. Other queer organizations > followed Contenta and Ramstetters example in the years that > followed. The San Francisco *** and ******* Congregation Shaar Zahav > published Out of our Kitchen Closets: San Francisco *** Jewish > Cooking in 1987 as a fundraiser for the San Francisco AIDS > Foundation. (A recipe for Latkes nouvelle California called for > blue corn tortilla crumbs, and suggested garnishes of hamachi sushi, > kiwi, raspberry chutney, and mint yogurt.) San Franciscos > ***-affirming Metropolitan Community Church followed with its own > community cookbook in 1995. And the tradition lives on today, judging > from a recent call for submissions for a cookbook to raise money for > queer families affected by COVID-19, put out by Anchochaba > Publishing, a Chickasaw two spirit-owned publisher. > > The editors and contributors to The Whoever Said Dykes Cant Cook? > Cookbook never stopped contributing to queer arts and letters. After > briefly relocating to Florida and launching The Sea Wench Times, > Ramstetter returned to Cincinnati and helped found the Ohio ******* > Archives, in its first home above the (now-defunct) Crazy Ladies > Bookstore. 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