The inspiration to create a feminist cookbook came to Meghan while she was fast asleep one night in the winter of 2018. Upon waking, Meghan couldn’t shake the late-night burst of motivation: write a book that would empower modern feminist women to reclaim their heavily stigmatized love for community, cooking, baking, and culinary creativity.

Together, Leighann, Kayla and Meghan pay homage to a host of powerful historic feminist figures by repurposing and interpreting well-known (and lesser-known) recipes that have been enjoyed and prepared by famous feminist activists across the centuries. The year-long journey, filled with advocacy and lots of butter, led to the creation of Recipes to Take Down the Patriarchy, a full-length color cookbook chronicling famous recipes new and old, all centered around the stories, biographies and victories of history's most audacious female feminists.