num_pages: 194
description: If you could have a dinner party with anyone dead or alive who would it be? That's the question film critic and food writer Alissa Wilkinson answered as she gathered a hypothetical table of women who challenged norms and defied conventional wisdom. Ella Baker Alice B. Toklas Hannah Arendt Octavia Butler Agnes Varda Elizabeth David Edna Lewis Maya Angelou Laurie these smart engaging revolutionary and creative twentieth-century women were all profoundly influenced by their own relationships to food drink and other elements of sustenance. In Salty  Wilkinson explores the ways food managed to root these women into their various callings. For some it was cultivating perseverance in the face of hardship. For others it was nurturing a freedom to act even in the face of opposition toward justice and equality. For others it was an examination of what it means to be human with all its desire heartbreak sacrifice isolation and liberty. Salty is Alissa Wilkinson's invitation to you. Join these sharp empowered and often subversive women and discover how to live with courage agency grace smarts snark saltiness and sometimes feasting--even in uncertain times. Ultimately you will leave this table with a greater understanding of food drink gathering thinking loving and navigating the world.
language: English
title: Salty: Lessons on Eating, Drinking, and Living from Revolutionary Women
publisher: Broadleaf Books