In her writing of A Press of Our Own Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press(1989) Barbara Smith wrote that “We chose our name because the kitchen is the center of the home, the place where women in particular work and communicate with each other. We also wanted to convey the fact that we are a kitchen table, grass roots operation, begun and kept alive by women who cannot rely on inheritances or other benefits of class privilege to do the work we need to do”.  Also, Barbara criticised that the lesbian feminist movement underrepresented the voice of women of colour. She noted that the Kitchen Table Press frequently used graphic design languages from indigenous African, Asian, Latino, and Indian to reveal the author’s cultural background. Similarly, food can reflect how traditions, race, and culture intersect at one’s table. We need a more microhistorical lens for how lesbians survived from all different geopolitical areas.

The title of the series, ‘lesbian stone soup’, is a variation of the recipe titled ‘stone butch soup’ from the Butch Cook Book. It is a lesbian version of the famous folk story in which hungry people added a small portion of ingredients to the boiling pot of water and stone. The ‘stone butch soup’ is not only the wordplay between ‘stone butch’ and ‘stone soup’, but it also reveals potluck economics among lesbians, in which we cooperatively nourish each other from the scratch.