Peace Never Tasted So Sweet: CODEPINK Launches New Cookbook!
May 7th, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:
Dana Balicki
202-422-8624
dana@codepinkalert.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 by CODEPINK Women for Peace
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 CODEPINKplays 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 CODEPINKalert 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