‎4 Easy Ways to Celebrate the Season with the Woman's Industrial Kitchen

I'm passing this along for Woman's Industrial Kitchen proprietor, Irene Smith:

1. Let us cater your next event at your place or ours!

We have a wide variety of menu options to accommodate your pallet and your budget. Email womansindustrialkitchen@gmail.com for your complete menu options.

2. Join us for the 8 Days of Craft and Community

Every Saturday morning and Thursday night from November 24 to December 22, the Kitchen and The Woman's Industrial Exchange offer fun classes, activities and holiday cheer. Check out womansindustrialexchange.org for more details.

3. Take your friend, colleague or family to the Kitchen for lunch

The Kitchen is the only restaurant in the world dedicated to the history of women. Bring that special lady in your life in to celebrate her industriousness. We are open from 11-3 Monday through Friday at 333 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21201.

4. Buy a gift certificate

Don't know what to get for the friend or family member who has it all? How about a gift certificate to a one-of-a-kind Baltimore institution? Give the gift of aspic. Come in or call us at 410-244-6450.

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Irene Smith
Proprietor
The Woman's Industrial Kitchen
at the Woman's Industrial Exchange
333 N. Charles St.
Baltimore, MD 21201
410-244-6450

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Bring Back the Woman's Industrial Exchange Lunchroom!

The Woman's Industrial Exchange, at 333 North Charles Street, was founded in 1880 with the mission to give women - Civil War widows in particular - the opportunity to earn income through selling handicrafts. While the gift shop is still in operation, the lunch room has fallen on hard times. It stopped serving Baltimore's Best chicken salad and tomato aspic in 2002; after a renovation, it reopened in 2003 under an outside operator. Since then, it has been re-opened and re-closed by a couple of other operators, none of whom were able to attract the diners who were looking for the genteel atmosphere of the past.

Now, Souper Freak food truck operator Irene Smith is planning to re-open the restaurant as the Woman's Industrial Kitchen, serving old favorites like that chicken salad and tomato aspic. But she can't do it without our help. If you can afford to make a donation toward the cause, please check out Irene's Kickstarter page: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1597828317/be-a-part-of-restoring-womens-history-in-maryland

I gotta say that this project is near and dear to me. In the early-to-mid-90s, I worked downstairs at 333 North Charles Street and would regularly sneak upstairs to buy a cupcake from the gift shop. And every once in a while, I'd have the pleasure of eating lunch with my friend Marshall's elegant mother Betty, a woman who was very dear to me. I was even on the Board at the Exchange for a while. I'd love to be able to relive a little bit of my past.

Can you help?

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