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🗓️ 29 September 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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0:00.0 | Most afternoons, Salma Miriam holds court in the dining room of a wood-changled building |
0:08.8 | on the water in Bridgeport, Connecticut. |
0:11.5 | She's 87 years old, and this is exactly where she wants to be, sharing recipes or in deep |
0:17.9 | conversation with a fascinating stranger who's just walked in the front door. |
0:22.5 | A couple feet away, her friend Noel Fury, baked spread and flurries about the kitchen. |
0:28.9 | For more than 40 years, Salma and Noel have spent their days like this, at the Bloodroot |
0:34.0 | Feminist Vegetarian Restaurant in bookstore. |
0:37.2 | It began as a place where women came from all over the world to gather, share ideas and |
0:42.9 | share meals, and people definitely still come for those reasons. |
0:47.4 | The food sounds incredible, but they also come for Salma and Noel. |
0:52.7 | I'll tell you what I'm going to do. |
0:54.1 | I'm going to give it to Salma to start off. |
0:57.0 | You know, if you want me to say more on the subject, you tell me or tell her, it will |
1:01.4 | pass it to me like that, would that work? |
1:03.4 | That works perfect. |
1:04.4 | Okay. |
1:05.4 | And if you hear something that Salma's saying and you have something to add, I'll pull |
1:07.9 | on her sleeve and say, let me talk. |
1:09.9 | Okay, so here she is. |
1:12.8 | I'm Sarah Wyman. |
1:14.2 | This is Atlas Obscura, and today we go to the Bloodroot Feminist Vegetarian Restaurant |
1:19.6 | in bookstore. |
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