num_pages: 307
description: A culinary historians short takes on six famous women through the lens of food and cookingwhat they ate and how their attitudes toward food offer surprising new insights into their lives.Its a lively and unpredictable array of women; what they have in common with one another (and us) is a powerful relationship with food. They include Dorothy Wordsworth whose food story transforms our picture of the life she shared with her famous poet brother; Rosa Lewis the Edwardian-era Cockney caterer who cooked her way up the social ladder; Eleanor Roosevelt First Lady and rigorous protector of the worst cook in White House history; Eva Braun Hitlers mistress who challenges our warm associations of food family and table; Barbara Pym whose witty books upend a host of stereotypes about postwar British cuisine; and Helen Gurley Brown the editor of Cosmopolitan whose commitment to having it all meant having almost nothing on the plate except a supersized portion of diet gelatin.
language: English
title: What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories
publisher: Viking