Laurel's Kitchen

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The New Laurel's Kitchen (1986)
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First edition
AuthorLaurel Robertson, Carol Flinders, Bronwen Godfrey (1976); Laurel Robertson, Carol Flinders, Brian Ruppenthal (1986)
Original titleLaurel's Kitchen (1976)
LanguageEnglish
Genre Vegetarian cuisine
Publisher Nilgiri Press; Ten Speed Press
Publication date
1976; 1986
Pages511
ISBN 0-89815-167-8

Laurel's Kitchen is a vegetarian cookbook by Laurel Robertson, Carol Flinders, and Bronwen Godfrey that contributed to the rise of the vegetarian movement of the 1970s. It is also the name of Flinder's syndicated news column that she wrote for many years.

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Background and influence

Carol Lee Flinders was a student of Eknath Easwaran, whose influence led to her interest in vegetarianism. She created the vegetarian cookbook Laurel's Kitchen (1976), with a few of his other students, Laurel Robertson and Bronwen Godfrey. Laurel's Kitchen had a strong impact on the natural foods movement within the American counterculture. [1] [2] A second edition, The New Laurel's Kitchen, was published in 1986. It had the same subtitle and the same first two authors, and Brian Ruppenthal was the new third author.

The book has sold over a million copies. [3] Laurel's Kitchen contained extensive nutritional information from a scientific point of view, and sold more than a million copies. [4]

Flinders also wrote a weekly syndicated column called “Laurel’s Kitchen” for a number of years. [5] [6]

In 1978, Yoga Journal contained two reviews of Laurel's Kitchen, by different authors. [7] In 1994, the Vegetarian Times , a leading magazine for vegetarians, surveyed the most admired cookbooks among a "panel of cookbook authors, food editors, and chefs." The New Laurel's Kitchen was the "clear winner" for "best cookbook for beginners" (p. 107). [8]

Scholarship

A book by Megan Elias (2008), published by the University of Pennsylvania Press, devoted 9 pages to analyzing the book and its place in American culture, contending that "Laurel's Kitchen was as much a lifestyle guide as it was a cookbook" (p. 153). [2]

A scholarly review stated that Elias "gives the renowned countercultural cookbook Laurel’s Kitchen its proper due in American history.... she sees Laurel Robertson and her comrades Carol Flinders and Bronwyn Godfrey struggling, in an intelligent and heartfelt way, against the manipulations of the market, which devalued nutritious food, meaningful domestic labor, and communal connections" (p. 417). [9]

A scholarly book by Mary Drake McFeely (2001) also spent several pages discussing Laurel's Kitchen, which it described as "the Fannie Farmer of vegetarian cooking" (p. 142). [10]

Bibliography

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. [11] The column was published in a number of newspapers including The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA), [12] and The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR). [13]

See also

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References

  1. ↑ Belasco, Warren (2007). Appetite for Change: How the Counterculture Took on The Food Industry. Cornell University Press. ISBN   978-0801473296.
  2. 1 2 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 is discussed in pp. 152-160)
  3. ↑ It was later republished in revised form as The New Laurel's Kitchen (1986).The back cover of the 1986 edition states "over a million copies sold" (see link ).
  4. ↑ Laurel Robertson, Carol Flinders, & Brian Ruppenthal (1986). The new Laurel's kitchen. Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press. ISBN   0-89815-167-8. The 1986 edition is dedicated to "our teacher, Eknath Easwaran" (p. 13), and the back cover states "over a million copies sold" (see link ). In an introduction to the 1986 edition, Flinders wrote of "the collection of friends who helped produce Laurel's Kitchen ten years ago", that "we share a commitment to meditation" (p. 20).
  5. ↑ "Carol Flinders". Sonoma County Library . Retrieved 2024-12-18.
  6. ↑ Flinders, Carol (1987-06-02). "Laurel's Kitchen". The Washington Post . Retrieved 2024-12-18.
  7. ↑ Freda E. Elliott (pp. 52, 64); Suza Norton Hebenstreit (pp. 53-55) (both 1978, March/April, under same title). Vegetarian Cookery at Laurel's Kitchen, issue 19.
  8. ↑ Sharon Bloyd-Peshkin (1994, November). Cookbooks You Can't Live Without. Vegetarian Times , pp. 106-108, accessed 8 Nov 2009.
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ 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)
  11. ↑ Jamie Neely (September 15, 1987). "Author pursues spiritual goals in 'laurel's kitchen'". Spokane Chronicle . pp. F1. OCLC   17365219 . Retrieved 21 Oct 2012.
  12. ↑ Carol Flinders (March 5, 1980). "Notes from Laurel's Kitchen" (March 5, 1980) The Spokesman-Review (accessed 24 October 2012)
  13. ↑ Carol Flinders (Sep. 30, 1980). "Notes from Laurel's Kitchen" (Sep. 30, 1980) The Register-Guard (accessed 24 October 2012)


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