If there’s a positive side to the pandemic, it’s how the dynamic of the collaboration has adapted to the digital era – people who are technically far apart can still be “together.”
So, in honor of Women’s History Month, and more specifically International Women’s Day, we’re highlighting two groups of women who embraced the spirit of collaboration via recipes, crafting digital cookbooks that not only provide inspiration but also come from the heart.
Photo: American Women's Association of Rome
During the lockdown, eight members of the joined forces to publish The Roman Kitchen Food and Memories, a digital cookbook that features 130 recipes, stories, and quotes contributed by over 40 of the organization’s 150 Rome-based members. The labor of love was conceived by esteemed food writer Maureen B. Fant, a James Beard nominee and IACP winner who co-wrote Sauces & Shapes: Pasta the Italian Way (2013) – an indispensable book for any Italian food enthusiast.
At the moment, the spiral-bound book is only being shipped in Italy, but you can purchase the digital edition here for 10€. The American Women’s Association of Rome is donating half of the proceeds to Protezione Civile, which provides aid to Italy’s front-line health care workers.
In honor of Women’s History Month, the James Beard Foundation has compiled 20 recipes from alums of their esteemed Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership Program Fellow to publish A Place at the Table, a digital cookbook in collaboration with Audi. The recipes include cappelletti di prosciutto by Sabrina Tinsley of Osteria La Spiga in Seattle, and cioppino, an Italian-American fish stew, by Fiona Lewis of the District Fishwife in Washington D.C. The book is free and you can download it here.
Photographer: Linda Xiao, Recipe Stylist: Judy Kim, Prop Stylist: Maeve Sheridan