MIRIAM, Selma & FURIE, Noel; LARNED, Emily (ed.)
Our daily lives have to be a satisfaction in themselves: 40 years of Bloodroot

Audre Lorde ate there. So did Adrienne Rich. Since 1977, Bloodroot has been celebrated – for the food as well as the fellowship – and its many devotees continuously return to this feminist vegetarian restaurant (and bookstore!) tucked in a residential harborside neighborhood in Bridgeport, CT.

This book documents 40 years of Bloodroot, through a chronology, personal-political essays by founders Selma Miriam and Noel Furie, and over 70 of Noel Furie’s original photographs of Bloodroot and friends, including Lorde, Rich, Mary Daly, Billie Potts.

This book is for you if you’re interested in: second wave feminism, radical lesbian feminism, vegetarianism, work collectives, fiber arts, the 1970s, seasonal eating, female-centered spirituality, autobiography, growing food, the 1980s, independent bookstores, worker-owned restaurants, veganism, feminist businesses, the 1990s, global cooking, feminist theory, utopian movements, personal-political essays, the 2000s, debunking health fads, radical suburbia, mother & daughter relationships, photographs by women of women, the 2010s. The footnotes on nearly every page comprise a suggested reading list for many (if perhaps not all) of these topics.

This book may also be of interest if you like: books made from archives; books designed with contemporary typefaces, books printed entirely in the color burgundy, books originally edited, designed, printed, and hand-bound by the artist-publisher; Bridgeport books; Connecticut books; books with pictures of cats in them; books that have won fancy design awards.

Offset-printed version of a hand-bound, Risograph printed book from 2018.

[publishers’ note]

Published by Alder & Frankia, 2020
Design by Emily Larned
Essays / Collectives / Queer Culture / Feminism / Food Culture