This time of year often provides us the opportunity to visit and break bread wth family and friends. The smell of turkey roasting! The aroma of the pies! What memories it brings back for many of us! This month we profile some of the women who have made possible those wonderful memories of safe and delicious food: Fannie Farmer, Mary Engle Pennington, Julia Child, Joyce Chen, and Alice Waters. 
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Native American women have left an important legacy of being strong leaders. When writing our book, we strived to find evidence of the early Native American women, to tell their stories. Sadly, many of their names have been lost to history; much of early Native American culture was an oral tradition. In this edition of our newsletter, we are proud to profile Nancy Ward, Sarah Winnemucca, Annie Dodge Wauneka, and Wilma Mankiller. These leaders literally fought in battle, fought for the rights of their people, and worked to make lives better for all.
A study done by the Harvard School of Public Health and published in the New England Journal of Medicine found 
that being overweight and obese was the single most important risk factor that predicated who would develop type 2 diabetes. In this column, we profile Ellen Swallow Richards, an early advocate of a healthy lifestyle for women, Jenny Craig, who co-founded the weight loss and nutritional food company that bears her name, and Bernadine Healy, a cardiologist and the first woman to lead the National Institutes of Health.
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During the month of November comes that veritable feast – a time to celebrate our blessings with family and friends. In this month’s newsletter, we highlight two women from our bestselling book Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America who made it possible for us to be confident about the storage conditions for the poultry that we eat and for making recipes that we can reproduce many times.
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Saturday we told you about the 23rd National Women’s Hall of Fame Induction ceremony held in Seneca Falls. Four of the eleven women inducted this year were nominated by one person. As YNN’s Erin Clarke tells us, Jill Tietjen makes it her mission to highlight the accomplishments of truly great women.
SENECA FALLS, N.Y. — Jill Tietjen said her mission is to tell the stories of great women. Her book titled ‘Her Story: A Timeline of the Women who Changed America’ chronicles the often unrecognized contributions of American women since the 1500s. Some of those women are now inductees in the National Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls.
“The women that I’ve learned about, I didn’t know about them. If I don’t know about them, no one else knows about them,” said Tietjen.
Tietjen is the Hall of Fame’s most successful nominator. She nominated twenty-one of the 247 inductees. Four of the 11 who entered the Hall of Fame Saturday were her picks.
‘They are St. Katharine Drexel, Dorothy Eustis, Billie Holiday, and Donna Shalala,” said Tietjen.
Tietjen, an electrical engineer by trade, started nominating scientific and technical women for the hall in the early 90s. While researching for her book, she came across women in other fields and branched out. Now Tietjen’s reputation as a successful nominator precedes her and people even bring her women to nominate.
“I got two names tonight, already of women to nominate in the next cycle,” said Tietjen.
Tietjen said she does this because these women inspire. When she was a girl, no one encouraged her to be an engineer and she thinks young women today should know that they can do anything.
“It’s very important for us to know about the accomplishments of these women, to celebrate them and then to have them as role models,” said Tietjen.
She plans to continue making nomination for the Hall of Fame in hopes of writing women back into history.
Seneca Falls is considered the birthplace of the American women’s Rights Movement. In 1848 it was the site of the first Women’s Rights Convention.