The National Organization for Women has released a cookbook. "NOW has always encouraged the nourishment of women's minds and souls," writes President Patricia Ireland in a press release, "so it seems natural for us to write a book about nourishing the body as well." But perhaps owing to the group's often reflexively confrontational stance, the book is titled Don't Assume I Don't Cook.

And after authoring a diet book, former Dukakis campaign manager and Harvard Law Review president Susan Estrich defended its content, declaring: "Dieting for me is an act of feminism."

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