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    Post How Lesbian Luminaries Put Together a Groundbreaking Cookbook

    How Lesbian Luminaries Put Together a Groundbreaking Cookbook - ‘Whoever Said Dykes Can’t Cook?’ combined art, food, and fundraising.

    In the United States, women’s 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 Can’t Cook? Cookbook, published in support of the Cincinnati Lesbian Activist Bureau, ushered in a new genre of fundraising cookbooks for $#@! organizations.

    Whoever Said Dykes Can’t Cook? was actually not the first lesbian cookbook. That honor belongs to The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook (1954), a memoir-with-recipes about Toklas’s relationship with the modernist writer Gertrude Stein. Whoever Said Dykes Can’t Cook? was also preceded by The Political Palate (1980), a cookbook published by the lesbian-feminist Bloodroot Collective restaurant in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Contenta and Ramstetter included recipes from The Political Palate in their own cookbook, and followed the restaurant’s lead in only publishing vegetarian recipes.


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    And I thought they were only interested in "Tossing the Salad"

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    ...part of my continuing effort to keep you all informed and amused.
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    Does anybody really care what the sexuality is of a person who puts out a cook book?

    Yes, please do keep giving us these little morsels of information and amusement! I do, truly enjoy them!
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    Quote Originally Posted by carolina73 View Post
    And I thought they were only interested in "Tossing the Salad"
    *facepalm*

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    Quote Originally Posted by Collateral Damage View Post
    Does anybody really care what the sexuality is of a person who puts out a cook book?

    Yes, please do keep giving us these little morsels of information and amusement! I do, truly enjoy them!
    You don't seem to get it. This is the gayest cookbook ever. Is America ready for that? Are you?
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    But seriously, who ever said dykes can't cook. Is that a stereotype?
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    I think I will put out a cookbook compiled from Conservatives. We could have things like "Red, White and Blue Potato Salad, George Washington Cherry Pie, and the best of the best, recipes from restaurants on Trump properties.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister D View Post
    You don't seem to get it. This is the gayest cookbook ever. Is America ready for that? Are you?
    I suppose only those who can't accept that there are people different them them, would have a problem with it.

    Don't like the idea of using a cookbook written for, or inclusive of 'gay' cooks, then don't buy it, read it or use it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by nathanbforrest45 View Post
    I think I will put out a cookbook compiled from Conservatives. We could have things like "Red, White and Blue Potato Salad, George Washington Cherry Pie, and the best of the best, recipes from restaurants on Trump properties.
    If it contains ingredients I can eat, I'd be happy to check it out!
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