Ode to the Woman who made us fat and told us to eat our veggies

It’s women’s history month and it’s time to celebrate. Women have always had a special relationship with food, seeing as they and everyone else on the planet needs it around 3 times a day to sustain life. And through years of historical oppression, cooking and food was one of the few opportunities many women had to express themselves and their creativity, which is both a blessing and a curse. A blessing because nothing really compares to mom’s mac & cheese. A curse because nothing really compares to 5 day old sunday crockpot soup either.  But women have been changing history, lives, countries, and most importantly food well beyond motherhood and the suffragette movement and it’s time to recognize these revolutionaries.





Ruth Graves Wakefield, from Massachusetts was the inventor of the Toll House Cookie, the first chocolate chip cookie ever, which she created in 1938 and we’ve been craving it ever since.

Jehane Benoît,  a Canadian culinary author, speaker, commentator, journalist, and broadcaster. After studying at the Sorbonne and the Cordon Bleu cooking school in Paris, she started her own cooking school, Fumet de la Vieille France, in Montreal. She also opened one of Canada's first vegetarian restaurants, "The Salad Bar", in 1935. And it’s because of Benoit that Wakefield’s cookies haven’t completely ruined us, just yet.

Marika Hanbury-Tenison was an English journalist, cookery writer. Marika ate her way through her worldwide adventures. She's most famous for writing a book on the foods of indonesia “A Slice  of Spice, Travels to the Indonesian Islands.”

Ina Rosenberg Garten is an American author, Emmy Award winning host of the Food Network program Barefoot Contessa. But she’s was recognized first as a former White House nuclear policy analyst. Only a woman could be an actual rocket scientist in  the lab and kitchen.
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Mary Ann Esposito is an American chef and the television host of Ciao Italia with Mary Ann Esposito, which started in 1989 and is the longest-running television cooking program in America and still runs today!

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