Enjoy What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories from Laura Shapiro

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Title: What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories

Author: Laura Shapiro

Narrator: Kimberly Farr, Laura Shapiro

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:03:00

Release date: 01-25-18

Genres: Personal Journals

Publisher's Summary: Dorothy Wordsworth believed that feeding her poet brother, William, gooseberry tarts was her part to play in a literary movement. Cockney chef Rosa Lewis became a favourite of King Edward VII, who loved her signature dish of whole truffles boiled in champagne. Eleanor Roosevelt dished up Eggs Mexican - a concoction of rice, fried eggs, and bananas - in the White House. Eva Braun treated herself to champagne and cake in the bunker before killing herself, alongside Adolf Hitler. Barbara Pym's novels overflow with enjoyment of everyday meals - of frozen fish fingers and Chablis - in midcentury England. Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown's idea of 'having it all' meant having almost nothing on the plate except a supersized portion of diet gelatin. In the irresistible What She Ate, Laura Shapiro examines the plates, recipe books and shopping trolleys of these six extraordinary women, casting a new light on each of their lives - revealing love and rage, desire and denial, need and pleasure.