A review by pr727
What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories by Laura Shapiro

2.0

I give it a 1.5. I listened to the audio book, which was clear and easy to understand. I just wasn't able to connect or get very interested in most of the women she writes about - Wordsworth's sister, Barbara Pym, Rosa Lewis - in part because I had no previous knowledge of them and, given that, that the author did not spark my interest in them. The chapter on Eleanor Roosevelt was more interesting although Shapiro's take on her disinterest in food during the White House years seems contrived. The chapter on Eva Braun was just creepy and that on Helen Gurley Brown tiresome. I wish she'd try again, writing about better known and more contemporary women.