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A review by knmed
What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories by Laura Shapiro
3.75
Entertainment - 3.5
Subject- 4
Execution - 2.25
Writing style - 5
Audiobook - 3.5
The concept of this book was really interesting, but sadly Shapiro didn’t quite pull it off. I can imagine it would be really hard to research famous women’s eating habits and I think it shows. The chapter on Eleanor Roosevelt was what I hoped the entire book would be. None the less it was still interesting, if not exactly what I wanted out of it. The thing I liked least about it is how much disordered eating showed up in it. It makes some sense that it would be a topic since women’s eating has had disordered eating a part of it for so long, but I would have preferred a focus on other women that didn’t include that. A large focus was put on cultural eating at the time and place of the women and I thought that was interesting. I wish that Shapiro read her entire audiobook. She reads the intro and conclusion and I thought she did a great job
The concept of this book was really interesting, but sadly Shapiro didn’t quite pull it off. I can imagine it would be really hard to research famous women’s eating habits and I think it shows. The chapter on Eleanor Roosevelt was what I hoped the entire book would be. None the less it was still interesting, if not exactly what I wanted out of it. The thing I liked least about it is how much disordered eating showed up in it. It makes some sense that it would be a topic since women’s eating has had disordered eating a part of it for so long, but I would have preferred a focus on other women that didn’t include that. A large focus was put on cultural eating at the time and place of the women and I thought that was interesting. I wish that Shapiro read her entire audiobook. She reads the intro and conclusion and I thought she did a great job