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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

Bloodroot Feminist Restaurant

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

For more than 40 years Selma Miriam and Noel Furie have maintained the Bloodroot Feminist Vegetarian Restaurant and Bookstore as a place where women from all over the world can gather, share ideas, and share meals. Visit Bloodroot: https://www.bloodroot.com/about Learn more about the Feminist Restaurant Project: http://www.thefeministrestaurantproject.com/ READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/bloodroot-feminist-vegetarian-restaurant

Transcript

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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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