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ExcerptsOn this page you'll find several morsels and butch bios from the butch cookbook. Also, scroll down to the bottom for links to a few of the recipes you will find in the book.
Morsel: Someday they’ll come for the butches. Who will speak for us? Passion keeps me alive. When I cease to live audaciously--that day I’ll die. Being a butch has been the most troublesome and most delicious experience of my life. Being a butch--like being a woman a lesbian, having a soul--is not something I can dismiss. I believe butches are born, not made. Since this is my birthright, I choose to glory in it. When I comb my hair back and strut out my front door, being butch is my hallelujah.—Jeanne Cordova, “Butches, Lies, and Feminism,” in Persistent Desire, ed. Joan Nestle
Morsel: The day I discovered that my Cal State Abnormal Psych text called me “gender dysfunctional,” I brought my text home. In a furious burst of rare culinary endeavor, I flung butter in a frying pan and threw Abnormal Psych on the burner. Moments later, Judy came flying out the bedroom, gasping, “what’s that horrible smell?” “I’m sending Abnormal Psych back to hell where it belongs,” I answered calmly, spatula in hand. “I’m frying this heresy like a good Catholic.”—Jeanne Cordova, “Butches, Lies, and Feminism,” in Joan Nestle, Persistent Desire
Morsel: I think the word butch will remain with us in underground Gay culture, as a useful description of another way of being a female, and “butch-femme” relationships as another form of marriage…. Butch…designates a Lesbian office, one with apparently quite a long history.—Judy Grahn, Another Mother Tongue (pp. 160-161)
And here are a few of the recipe delights you will find in the butch cook book! Click to view. Flat Chicken by Shelly Timberwolf Apple Pie Cake by Louise Griffin Three Methods of Green Bean Preparation by Garbo Blue Cheese and Rosemary Scalloped Potatoes by Barb Beyenhof Cheesy-Garlicky Biscuits by Jack Superb Apple Salad by Bernie Gardner
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Specific
references to the “butch” beginnings are not documented,
but many believe that most butch language in the form of code came from
the bar scene, women’s prison experiences, and the military barracks
during World War II as an aid for finding each other. The first
known recording of the word “butch” was in the San Francisco
News on September 1, 1954. “Then some of the girls
began wearing mannish clothing. They called themselves butches.”—Sue
Hardesty (Oxford English
Dictionary). 
Butch
Bio : My
wife, Ellen, says I'm a cross between Martha Stewart and MacGyver. That's
probably why my dishes are never the same twice. I don't measure
when I'm cooking. I know what I like and what works (Martha side). I
mix that with lots of improvisation or better yet what I feel like using
(MacGyver side). Don't worry about measuring. Stick with
instinct. Well, that's butch instinct with this recipe. –Melissa
Freet
Morsel: The cultural ideals of butch are so much newer,
so much more nebulous, and yet we seem to know when it’s being
done well. When people speak admiringly of a butch, what I see
is someone who has taken on the best gendered characteristics of both
woman and man, left a lot of the stuff born of misogyny and heterosexism
behind, and walked forward into the world without apology.—S. Bear
Bergman
Butch Bio: Sabrina Matthews is an openly lesbian comedian who "hates
lesbian stereotypes-- because they all apply to her. She must have
a pet at all times, drives an old truck and owns about four shirts that
are not flannel. Most are velour, which is like a methadone for
flannel." Sabrina
is definitely butch-- except when it comes to baths. "I'm
all butch until there's hot water in the tub. Then it's tea lights
and back to back Enya on the cd changer."