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A review by skelleybean
What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories by Laura Shapiro
4.0
This book focuses on six women with very different lives who are brought together in these pages by one common subject: food. What did these women eat (or not eat in some cases)? Where did they eat? How did it affect their relationships, their personalities, their lives?
The six women discussed are: Dorothy Wordsworth, the sister of author William Wordsworth, who was his personal cook and housekeeper for years; Rosa Lewis, a very famous Cockney chef and caterer around the turn of the 20th century; First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt; Eva Braun, Hitler’s hidden mistress; Barbara Pym, a domestic-themed author during the 1940s and 50s; and Helen Gurley Brown, the long time editor of Cosmopolitan.
Each of these women lived fascinating lives, and there is so much history to tell about each of them, its hard to stuff all the necessary information in a single chapter, yet Shapiro does it in a way that is both entertaining and insightful. With each woman came new ideas and stories about how the food these women ate shaped a part of their lives few have looked at.
If you are interested in food history at all, or are interested in a new way to look at these famous women, I highly recommend it.
The six women discussed are: Dorothy Wordsworth, the sister of author William Wordsworth, who was his personal cook and housekeeper for years; Rosa Lewis, a very famous Cockney chef and caterer around the turn of the 20th century; First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt; Eva Braun, Hitler’s hidden mistress; Barbara Pym, a domestic-themed author during the 1940s and 50s; and Helen Gurley Brown, the long time editor of Cosmopolitan.
Each of these women lived fascinating lives, and there is so much history to tell about each of them, its hard to stuff all the necessary information in a single chapter, yet Shapiro does it in a way that is both entertaining and insightful. With each woman came new ideas and stories about how the food these women ate shaped a part of their lives few have looked at.
If you are interested in food history at all, or are interested in a new way to look at these famous women, I highly recommend it.