Tuesday, 05 Mar 2024
A History of Activism Through Cookbooks
Sarah Lohman will explore the origins of the link between food and activism with the abolitionist food writers of the Civil War; unpack suffrage cookbooks from the turn of the 20th century; share the earliest LGBTQ cooking pamphlets from the 1960s; and talk about how food is still used to connect and advocate for causes today. Lohman is originally from Cleveland, Ohio, where she began working in a museum at age 16, cooking historical food...