Carol Lee Flinders is an author and former vegetarian food writer/syndicated columnist. She is best known as one of the three authors of the vegetarian cookbook Laurel's Kitchen along with Laurel Robertson and Bronwen Godfrey. She also wrote the syndicated news column "Laurel's Kitchen" based on the cookbook.
Early life and education Flinders was born to Gilbert H. and Jeanne Lee Ramage, and grew up on a farm in Oregon's Willamette Valley. In 1958 her family moved to Spokane. She graduated from North Central High School (Spokane, Washington) in 1961,<ref name=webster98></ref> later receiving a bachelor's degree from Stanford University, and a PhD in comparative literature from the University of California at Berkeley.Harper's biography
Career Flinders became nationally known in 1976 through her coauthorship of Laurel's Kitchen, a widely acclaimed guide to vegetarian cookery that has been described as a "renowned countercultural cookbook,"Elizabeth Hearne & Robert D. Johnston (2009). Raising the Roof: Science, Feminism, and Home Economics. Reviews in American History, v37 n3, pp413-419. . and as "the Fannie Farmer of vegetarian cooking."Mary Drake McFeely (2001). Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?: American Women and the Kitchen in the Twentieth Century. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 1-55849-333-6 (NB: Laurel's Kitchen is discussed in pp. 141-145) Later, cultural historians contended that "Laurel's Kitchen was as much a lifestyle guide as it was a cookbook."Megan J. Elias (2008). Stir it up: home economics in American culture. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 0-8122-4079-0. (NB: Laurel's Kitchen and it impact on American culture is analyzed and discussed in pages 152-160) Flinders also wrote a weekly syndicated column called “Laurel’s Kitchen” for a number of years.
Beginning in the late 1980s, Flinders published a series of books on spirituality. The first published in 1989,The Making of a Teacher, (coauthored with her husband Timothy Flinders) provided an oral history of the life and work of Eknath Easwaran, who had helped inspire the creation of Laurel's Kitchen.<ref name=mot89> ISBN 0915132540</ref>
She was a lecturer in spirituality at Holy Names College in Oakland, California.
Works Laurel's Kitchen cookbooks Laurel Robertson, Carol Lee Flinders, and Bronwen Godfrey (1976). Laurel's Kitchen: a handbook for vegetarian cookery & nutrition. Berkeley, CA: Nilgiri Press. Laurel Robertson, Carol Lee Flinders, and Bronwen Godfrey (1978). Laurel's Kitchen: a handbook for vegetarian cookery & nutrition. New York: Bantam Books. Laurel Robertson, Carol Lee Flinders, and Bronwen Godfrey (1979). Laurel's Kitchen: a handbook for vegetarian cookery & nutrition. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. Laurel Robertson, Carol Lee Flinders, Bronwen Godfrey (1984). The Laurel's Kitchen bread book: a guide to whole-grain breadmaking. Random House. Laurel Robertson, Carol Lee Flinders, and Brian Ruppenthal (1986). The New Laurel's Kitchen: a handbook for vegetarian cookery & nutrition. Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press. Laurel Robertson, Carol Lee Flinders, Brian Ruppenthal (1993, revised edition). Laurel's Kitchen recipes. Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press. Laurel Robertson, Carol Lee Flinders, Brian Ruppenthal (1997). Laurel's Kitchen caring: recipes for everyday home caregiving. Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press.
Laurel's Kitchen syndicated column Flinders published the syndicated newspaper column based on her cookbook, Laurel's Kitchen for many years. In 1987 it appeared in 20 newspapers. The column was published in a number of newspapers including The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA),Carol Flinders (March 5, 1980). "Notes from Laurel's Kitchen" (March 5, 1980) The Spokesman-Review (accessed 24 October 2012) and The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR).Carol Flinders (Sep. 30, 1980). "Notes from Laurel's Kitchen" (Sep. 30, 1980) The Register-Guard (accessed 24 October 2012)
Additional works
Flinders, Carol (1989).The Making of a Teacher: Conversations with Eknath Easwaran.
See also List of American print journalists List of vegan and plant-based media
References
External links Biography - Penguin Random House