Gloria Steinem Found Community and Clout Over the Dinner Table
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Neither a home cook nor an enthusiastic eater, she used the dinner table as a place to forge relationships and foster change.
Listen · 4:27 min Share full article 0 Gloria Steinem didn’t cook in her Upper East Side apartment, but she hosted gatherings with takeout or catered food. Credit... Gia McKenna / Gloria’s Foundation By Kim Severson
“When I first moved to New York, I made a list of things that made me afraid of New Yorkers, and one was they didn’t eat standing up out of the refrigerator,” she told an audience last year in New York City at the Cherry Bombe Jubilee, a conference that celebrates women in the culinary sphere.
But Ms. Steinem, who died Wednesday at age 92, understood the power of gathering around the table, as a place for cementing relationships, sharing ideas and building political power — whether at home or in restaurants, where she famously staged protests in the 1960s to end the exclusion of women.
“She used the idea of dinner to get together people she might otherwise not meet,” said the media producer Amy Richards, her longtime creative partner.
Ms. Steinem regularly hosted events in her Upper East Side apartment, which had three floors. One she reserved as her private quarters, and another served as the setting for her gatherings.
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