Hi, this is Mimi Sheraton, author of A Thousand Foods to Eat Before You Die,

and you are listening to Radio Cherry Bomb.

Boys and Girls Are All right, up, Boys and Girls Are All-Batter,

whole world's shaking, baby, and we're all better.

Hi, everybody.

Welcome to Radio Cherry Bomb.

I'm Carrie Diamond, editorial director of Cherry Bomb, the indie magazine about women and food.

This season of Radio Cherry Bomb is brought to you by Knaf,

publisher of food's most fabulous icons from Julia Child to Lydia Bostionage, and home to new

literary talents, such as Sweet Bitter's Stephanie Danler. Today's show is a tough one. It's our

post-election show, and it's not the show we thought we'd be doing.

Chances are, if you are a Cherrybaum reader or radio Cherrybaum listener, you were a Hillary supporter.

You were excited about the prospect of the first female president of the United States,

and you looked forward to the shattering of the ultimate glass ceiling. But none of this was meant

to be. It's really hard for me to read these words right now. But none of this was meant to be. It's really hard for me to read these words right now.

But none of this was meant to be.

Instead, we wound up with a president-elect whose attitudes toward women are pretty vile.

Tuesday night was unbearable, and yesterday, Wednesday, was a dark, dark day.

I have to send a special thank you to the server at Barbuda, who poured me

rosé for several hours yesterday. Thank you for that. Because we're not the types to sit

around and mope. We have four women here today to talk about what the heck happened, what this

means, and what we can do moving forward. I'd like to welcome Aaron McKenna, founder of Aaron McKenna's

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