Are you interested in community cookbooks? Free event today.

Apologies for the short notice but I just found out about an interesting discussion entitled Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks. It’s being hosted by the Harvard Radcliffe Institute and it’s at 4pm ET today (as I said, rather short notice). Registration for the Zoom event is free.

Here are the details:

Join us for the opening event of the exhibition Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks. This program will feature Angela Sanfilippo, president of the Gloucester Fishermen’s Wives Association, and Marylène Altieri, former curator of books and printed materials at the Schlesinger Library, in conversation with exhibition curator Erin LaBove. Drawn from the Schlesinger Library’s extensive collection of more than 4,300 community cookbooks, Cooking Up Change explores the history and cultural significance of community cookbooks spanning the 19th to the 21st centuries. The collection showcases the efforts of women’s groups within a variety of organizations to raise funds for their religious, educational, and civic causes while also documenting the social and cultural history of their varied communities and culinary traditions.