Carol Lee Flinders

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Carol Lee Flinders
OccupationAuthor, Educator
Education Stanford University, B.A.
University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D.
GenreVegetarian Cooking
Spirituality
Notable works Laurel's Kitchen and The Making of a Teacher
SpouseTim Flinders

Carol Lee Flinders is an author and former vegetarian food writer/syndicated columnist. She is best known as one of the three authors of the vegetarian cookbook Laurel's Kitchen along with Laurel Robertson and Bronwen Godfrey. She also wrote the syndicated news column "Laurel's Kitchen" based on the cookbook.

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Early life and education

Flinders was born to Gilbert H. and Jeanne Lee Ramage, [1] and grew up on a farm in Oregon's Willamette Valley. [2] In 1958 her family moved to Spokane. [1] She graduated from North Central High School (Spokane, Washington) in 1961, [3] later receiving a bachelor's degree from Stanford University, and a PhD in comparative literature from the University of California at Berkeley. [4] [5]

Career

Flinders became nationally known in 1976 through her coauthorship of Laurel's Kitchen , a widely acclaimed guide to vegetarian cookery that has been described as a "renowned countercultural cookbook," [6] [7] : 417  and as "the Fannie Farmer of vegetarian cooking." [8] : 142  Later, cultural historians contended that "Laurel's Kitchen was as much a lifestyle guide as it was a cookbook." [9] : 153  Flinders also wrote a weekly syndicated column called “Laurel’s Kitchen” for a number of years. [10] [11]

Beginning in the late 1980s, Flinders published a series of books on spirituality. The first published in 1989, The Making of a Teacher , (coauthored with her husband Timothy Flinders) provided an oral history of the life and work of Eknath Easwaran, who had helped inspire the creation of Laurel's Kitchen. [12]

She was a lecturer in spirituality at Holy Names College in Oakland, California. [4]

Works

Laurel's Kitchen cookbooks

Laurel's Kitchen syndicated column

Flinders published the syndicated newspaper column based on her cookbook, Laurel's Kitchen for many years. In 1987 it appeared in 20 newspapers. [1] The column was published in a number of newspapers including The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA), [13] and The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR). [14]

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See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Jamie Neely (September 15, 1987). "Author pursues spiritual goals in 'laurel's kitchen'". Spokane Chronicle . pp. F1. OCLC   17365219 . Retrieved 21 Oct 2012.
  2. ↑ Maura Thurman (August 8, 2006). "Taking a New Path: 'Laurel's Kitchen' Co-Author Writes about Feminism, Spirituality". Marin Independent Journal . ISSN   0891-5164. OCLC   61313188.
  3. ↑ Dan Webster (March 5, 1998). "Klaas case bolsters Flinders' theory". The Spokesman Review . pp. D1 (In Life section). OCLC   11102529.
  4. 1 2 "Holy Names Catalog 2011-2013" (PDF). Holy Names College . Retrieved 2023-03-15.
  5. ↑ Harper's biography
  6. ↑ Belasco, Warren (2007). Appetite for Change: How the Counterculture Took on The Food Industry. Cornell University Press. ISBN   978-0801473296.
  7. ↑ Elizabeth Hearne & Robert D. Johnston (2009). Raising the Roof: Science, Feminism, and Home Economics. Reviews in American History, v37 n3, pp413-419. doi : 10.1353/rah.0.0121.
  8. ↑ Mary Drake McFeely (2001). Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?: American Women and the Kitchen in the Twentieth Century. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 1-55849-333-6 (NB: Laurel's Kitchen is discussed in pp. 141-145)
  9. ↑ Megan J. Elias (2008). Stir it up: home economics in American culture . Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 0-8122-4079-0. (NB: Laurel's Kitchen and it impact on American culture is analyzed and discussed in pages 152-160)
  10. ↑ "Carol Flinders". Sonoma County Library . Retrieved 2024-12-18.
  11. ↑ Flinders, Carol (1987-06-02). "Laurel's Kitchen". The Washington Post . Retrieved 2024-12-18.
  12. ↑ Flinders, Tim; Carol Flinders (1989). The Making of a Teacher: Conversations with Eknath Easwaran . Petaluma, CA: Nilgiri Press. ISBN   9780915132546. OCLC   18983479. ISBN 0915132540
  13. ↑ Carol Flinders (March 5, 1980). "Notes from Laurel's Kitchen" (March 5, 1980) The Spokesman-Review (accessed 24 October 2012)
  14. ↑ Carol Flinders (Sep. 30, 1980). "Notes from Laurel's Kitchen" (Sep. 30, 1980) The Register-Guard (accessed 24 October 2012)
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