Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment, which guaranteed women the right to vote, All Stirred Up reveals a new side to the history of the suffrage movement.
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Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment, which guaranteed women the right to vote, All Stirred Up reveals a new side to the history of the suffrage movement.
This book acknowledges the familiar images of the women’s suffrage movement: picket signs, flowers, and women in white marching through the streets, but demonstrates how much more there was to the movement. Ever courageous and creative, suffragists also carried their cause into America’s homes through cookbooks and food. Suffragists reached out to women on their own terms, in nonthreatening and accessible ways, and thorough those women to the men who held the key to their quest for the right to vote. Using charm and wit, the suffragists leveraged their domestic knowledge and used social situations to put people at ease, pioneering grassroots tactics that fed spoonfuls of suffrage to communities through unexpected and unassuming channels. Filled with actual historic recipes (“mix the crust with tact and velvet gloves, using no sarcasm, especially with the upper crust”) and the spirited flavor of feminism and food movements of the suffrage era, All Stirred Up carries us back in time. It then celebrates the suffragists anew with modern adaptations of their recipes and stories of how they changed our lives and our world.
Long before women had the vote, they enfranchised themselves through the subversive – and savvy – power of the palate. They won supporters over with recipes from hot cross buns, fish chowder, and spatchcock chicken, to roll jelly cake and brownies. Celebrate them and make a dish or an entire meal from their cookbooks!
