CODEPINK Release A New Cookbook for Mother's Day! May 6th, 2010 |
FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE Contact:
Dana Balicki 202-422-8624 dana@codepink.org A
cookbook with real recipes for peace (and pies) from women around the world. PEACE
NEVER TASTED SO SWEET Deliciously Sweet and Savory Pie Recipes
from Women Around the World In 2002 CODEPINK emerged
out of a desperate desire by a group of American women to stop the Bush
administration from invading Iraq. The name CODEPINK plays on the color-coded homeland
security alerts — yellow, orange, red
— that signal terrorist threats. While these color-coded alerts, instated by
the former Bush Administration, are based on fear and are used to justify
violence, the CODEPINK alert
is a feisty call for women and men to "wage peace." Over the years the name CODEPINK has become
synonymous with rabble-rousing as members have been seen in action in hundreds
of cities and thousands of news outlets around the world (including CNN, CSPAN, BBC, New York Times, Al-Jazeera,
Fox, Washington Post and more) and regular fixtures at the Democratic and
Republican conventions and in the halls of Congress. In Peace Never Tasted So Sweet: Deliciously
Sweet and Savory Pie Recipes from Women Around the World (Printed
& distributed through Lulu.com; May 1, 2010; $7/$33), CODEPINK tells the
story of women “waging peace” and building community through their personal
family recipes as well as sharing their tools and experience as peace
activists. The stories and recipes were
collected from women across the US and globally including a poet laureate, a
retired Colonel, a witch, radical grandmothers, civil rights activists, a
leader in the Muslim peace movement, creative bakers, change-makers, a Girl's
Club, local CODEPINK coordinators and more. The cookbook opens
with an introduction by the two CODEPINK Cofounders, Medea Benjamin and Jodie
Evans, followed by a pie chart of how our federal tax dollars are allocated to
funding war and militarism. This allocation of national resources to war is
what inspired the “peace pie” cookbook idea. The first recipe is an “action
pie” which details how to throw a successful houseparty to cultivate your local
peace and justice community. The apple pies and lemon tarts start soon after,
interspersed with more “action pies” for those who like to cook up a good
protest or community outreach. CODEPINK Women for
Peace is a hearty mix of highly creative and passionate women working for
peace—and not afraid to bake for it. PEACE
NEVER TASTED SO SWEET Deliciously Sweet and Savory Pie Recipes
from Women Around the World May
1, 2010 $7.00
Ebook/ $33 print / 93 pp / 978-0-557-45194-4 Printed
& distributed by www.lulu.com Print
version: http://bit.ly/peacesosweetprint |
