"I feel like I can't do her justice." Miriam, the co-owner of the Bloodroot vegetarian restaurant and bookstore, founded in the city's Black Rock neighborhood in 1977, died Feb. 6 at home in ...

In 1977, they opened Bloodroot, a feminist restaurant and bookstore tucked into an industrial building on a dead-end street in Bridgeport. They had no waiters, no printed menu and no cash register ...