Our Foremothers' Table

[...] details, the real lives of real women, for me, that bring history alive and provides a personal connection to the mothers, grands, and greats though our lives are so radically different. And, as [...]

As millions of women gather in kitchens across the country to feed families, friends, and strangers on Thursday, it seems fitting to launch a blog abo [...]

[...]  who nourished this nation without recognition or glory. (It’s also a day to shovel pumpkin pie into my gaping maw but that’s another post.) The historical record of the early America [...]

[...] the Revolution that women began to shed their historical anonymity. It’s the post-Revolution Colonies gives us Miss Amelia Simmons, an American orphan, who published the first known [...]

[...] the men of the time. It wasn’t until the Revolution that women began to shed their historical anonymity. It’s the post-Revolution Colonies gives us Miss Amelia Simmons, an American orphan, [...]

[...] began to shed their historical anonymity. It’s the post-Revolution Colonies gives us Miss Amelia Simmons, an American orphan, who published the first known American recipe book, American [...]

[...] founding and settling of this nation. The earliest mentions of American women are mostly ship passenger lists, town rosters, or legal documents though we have many sermons, personal letters, and [...]

[...] Thursday, it seems fitting to launch a blog about the intersection of women’s history and culinary tradition on the week of Thanksgiving. Though the traditions and foods have evolved since the first [...]

[...] letters, and diaries from (and about) their male counterparts. What we know about the daily lives Pilgrim and Puritan women pales in comparison to what we know about the men of the time. It wasn’t [...]