Wikipedia:Meetup/US women food writers

Welcome! The Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America is hosting an edit-a-thon focused on U.S. Women Food Writers.
When: Thursday, March 24, 2016 from 3:00-6:00 PM Where: Radcliffe Room, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Yard. Focus: Part of a series of Wikipedia events focused on culinary history.

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

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

Wikipedia Help

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Wikipedia & the Gender Gap

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• If you care about women, you should edit Wikipedia differently
• Wikimedia Foundation: Gender Gap
• Unlocking the Clubhouse: Five Ways to Encourage Women to Edit Wikipedia
• Wikimedia Foundation: Gender Gap Manifesto
• Wikipedia's gender gap and the complicated reality of systemic gender bias
• How To Be A Woman On The Internet

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• Wikipedia Tutorial
• Wiki Project: Women's History

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