Malinda Russell's A Domestic Cookbook was first published in 1866. It contains least a hundred recipes for sweets, plus ...

NPR's Neda Ulaby reports on the oldest cookbook by a Black American woman — that we know of — which is out in a brand new edition this month.

Women in straight relationships, meanwhile, still tend to work a “second shift” at home, cleaning and cooking and caring more than their male partners. I don’t want endless labor ...

From descriptions of meals made for Jagiellonian University professors at the time, we learn that there was a woman cooking for them, but there were no recorded cases of female chefs. Women had to ...