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A Woman’s Work etc.

A Woman’s Place: The Inventors, Rumrunners, Lawbreakers, Scientists & Single Moms who Changed the World with Food by Deepi Ahluwalia, Stef Ferrari, Jessica Olah

August 20, 2025 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Bingo 8: Work A Woman’s Place: The Inventors, Rumrunners, Lawbreakers, Scientists & Single Moms who Changed the World with Food is basically a short illustrated encyclopedia of women who influenced the food world. The overall thesis is that their intellectual, physical, and cultural work across centuries and places has gone under-acknowledged. These women in different ways had to work to take care of themselves, their families, and communities, and in the process came up with things ranging from Camembert cheese to dishwashers to famous cookbooks […]

Filed Under: Cooking/Food, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #history, A Woman’s Place: The Inventors Rumrunners Lawbreakers Scientists & Single Moms who Changed the World with Food, cbr17bingo, Deepi Ahluwalia, Deepi Ahluwalia, Stef Ferrari, Jessica Olah, food history, Jessica Olah, recipes, restaurants, Stef Ferrari, technology history, Women's History

CoffeeShopReader's CBR17 Review No:41 · Genres: Cooking/Food, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: #history, A Woman’s Place: The Inventors Rumrunners Lawbreakers Scientists & Single Moms who Changed the World with Food, cbr17bingo, Deepi Ahluwalia, Deepi Ahluwalia, Stef Ferrari, Jessica Olah, food history, Jessica Olah, recipes, restaurants, Stef Ferrari, technology history, Women's History ·
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