Wikipedia:Meetup/US women food writers

=Event Details=

Wikipedia experts and research librarians will be available to help you write and edit your entries. A behind-the-scenes tour of the Schlesinger Library will also be provided.

Schedule

 * 3:00-4:00PM - curator introductions to the Schlesinger's culinary collections and a tour of the Library
 * 4:00-6:00PM - research and hands-on editing

Logistics

 * Locations, directions, maps:
 * Schlesinger Library is located in Radcliffe Yard, 3 James Street, Cambridge, MA. Directions, a map, and parking information is available here.
 * Twitter: Hashtag TBD
 * WiFi: Harvard Guest
 * What to Bring: laptop and extension cord
 * Contact the organizer: Amanda Strauss (Amandastra)

=Sign Up and Guest List= If you do not have a Wikipedia account, please create one in advance of the event. It should take less than five minutes:User Login

Attending

 * Amanda Strauss
 * Nicole Topich
 * Wendy Gan
 * Ellen Messer
 * Carolin Young
 * Elizabeth Mindreau
 * Rose Oliveira
 * Sally Sampson
 * Gail Arnold
 * Barbara Ketcham Wheaton
 * Mary Beaudry
 * Peter Fairbank

Participating Remotely
=Suggested Topics=

Biographies Needing Improvement

 * Ida Bailey Allen
 * Pearl Bowser
 * Poppy Cannon
 * Grace Zia Chu
 * Juliet Corson
 * Christine Frederick
 * Hannah Glasse
 * Karen Hess
 * Janet McKenzie Hill
 * Mahalia Jackson
 * Inez Y. Kaiser
 * Zarela Martinez
 * Maria Parloa
 * Mary Ellen Pleasant also known as Mammy Pleasant Charlamae Rollins
 * Mary Randolph
 * Sarah Tyson Rorer
 * Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor
 * Effie Waller Smith
 * Sue Bailey Thurman
 * Barbara Tropp
 * Madeline Turner
 * Charleszetta Waddles also interviewed in the Black Women Oral History Project

New Entries to be Written (Topics)

 * Community Cookbooks
 * Ladies Ordinary
 * Culinary Historians Organizations
 * New York Women's Culinary Alliance

New Entries to be Written (People)

 * Aglae Adanson
 * Emma Todd Anderson
 * Kathryn Armstrong
 * Aunt Priscilla
 * Katharin Bell
 * Phyllis Pray Bober
 * Lessie Bowers
 * Alice Bradley
 * Marie Buchmeier
 * Beatrice Hightower Cates
 * Dora Charles
 * Anne Clarke
 * Mamie Cook
 * Belle De Graf
 * Freda DeKnight
 * Annie E. Dennis
 * Margareth Dietrich
 * Marie Dorninger
 * Hildagonda J. Duckitt
 * Joan Eckstein
 * Julie Elias (food writer)
 * Irma Eliason
 * Malitta D. Fischer
 * Abby Fisher
 * Jane Eayre Fryer
 * Bessie M. Gant
 * Mme Gacon Dufour
 * Ruth L. Gaskins
 * Hattie Rhinehart Griffin
 * Agathe Haggenmiller
 * Anna Halm
 * Ethel Brown Hearon
 * Sarah Chapman Hill
 * Annabella Powell Hill
 * Mary Hollande (food writer)
 * Nannie Talbot Johnson
 * Ella Ervilla Kellogg
 * Ella Eaton Kellogg
 * Dorothy Kuffman
 * Lebour-Fawssett
 * Gesine Lemcke
 * Carrie Alberta Lyford
 * Helen T. Mahammitt
 * Lois Ellen Mark
 * Mary Jane McClure
 * Gretchen McMullen
 * Harriet S. McMurphy
 * Helen Mendes
 * Josephine T. Menefee
 * Blance Elbert Moncure
 * Flossie Morris
 * Patricia Murphy
 * Marion Harris Neil
 * Sarah W. Partridge
 * Jessie Payne
 * Caroline Pickett
 * Princess Pamela
 * Lena Richard
 * Malinda Russell
 * Mrs. W. R. Sanner
 * Maria Schellhammer
 * Mary Li Sia
 * Lucille Bishop Smith
 * Elizabeth Woodcock Smith
 * Mrs. James E. Smitherman
 * Ethel Somers
 * Elisabeth Stockel
 * Jane Stoker
 * Bertha L. Turner
 * Edna Alice Waite
 * Anna Weckerin
 * Rebecca West (cookbook author)
 * Frances Virginia Whitaker
 * Anna White
 * Helen W. William comp.
 * Grace Young

=Culinary History Resources=
 * Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project
 * NYPL Menu Project
 * Culinary biographies : a dictionary of the world's great historic chefs, cookbook authors and collectors, farmers, gourmets, home economists, nutritionists, restaurateurs, philosophers, physicians, scientists, writers, and others who influenced the way we eat today
 * The Jemima code : two centuries of African American cookbooks
 * Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery
 * Schlesinger Library Chefs & Food Writers Research Guide

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