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Category Archives: history

Spinster : making a life of one’s own by Kate Bolick
history / memoir / nonfiction

Spinster : making a life of one’s own by Kate Bolick

Posted on August 4, 2017 by Rachel Rappaport • Leave a comment

Another book I had mixed feelings about. It was a mashup of a memoir of a woman who never married and the profiles of 5 (6?) “spinsters” throughout history that Kate Bolick found inspiring. Looking at GoodReads, it seems like a lot of people liked the historical woman part and didn’t love the memoir bits. … Continue reading →

The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South by John T. Edge
food / history / nonfiction

The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South by John T. Edge

Posted on July 20, 2017 by Rachel Rappaport • 4 Comments

The Potlikker Papers one of, if not the, best food history books I’ve ever read. It goes from the segregated South to the Black Panthers (did you know Bobby Seale* has a cookbook?) to Nation of Islam to hippies relocating from cities to the deep South to start communes to Paul Prudhomme to Southern Living to … Continue reading →

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