Opinion: Before you slice your holiday pie, read this

Perhaps the most memorable recipe in "The Suffrage Cook Book," published in 1915 by the Equal Franchise Federation of Western Pennsylvania is "Pie for a Suffragist's Doubting Husband," which instructs: "Mix the crust with tact and velvet gloves, using no sarcasm, especially with the upper crust." The introduction to the volume, whose message was votes for American women, asserts that "the dining room is a greater social factor than the drawing room."