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Laddar... What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories (2017)av Laura Shapiro
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. The author examines the writings or memoirs of Dorothy Wordsworth, Rosa Lewis, Eleanor Roosevelt, Eva Braun, Barbara Pym, and Helen Gurley Brown. I feel sorry for anyone asked to dine with the Roosevelts, and I think I'd rather die of hunger than eat some of the things Helen ate to keep her figure. I don't think the book was particularly well-written. The prose did not always flow, and I lost interest quite often. I enjoyed Dorothy Wordsworth's chapter because we learn a lot about her care for her more famous brother William. Much of Pym's narrative was taken from her books--a treat for her fans. The book was definitely written for a popular audience, and it uses the "hidden endnotes" scheme where one doesn't know sources until they happen to look in the back. (Did I mention how much I detest this modern publisher practice?) I think the book will provide an interesting discussion for the book club for which I'm reading it. ( ) This a curious book. It sets out to shed light on the eating and culinary habits of six women, and what that can tell us about those women. For a start, the selection of women, ranging from Eva Braun to Dorothy Wordsworth, is very singular. There is no real clue as to why these women and not others are the subject matter - was it availability of sources, or some other reason? The quality of the sections on the individual women is highly variable. That on Barbara Pym (about whom I know quite a lot anyway) is accurate and coherent (apart from an incorrect statement about food rationing). But other chapters jump about from topic to topic, and seem to include material which is interesting to the author rather than being particularly relevant to the character of the woman in question. The chapters on Dorothy Wordsworth and Helen Gurley Brown are particularly prone to this. The chapter on Eva Braun, although fairly balanced, does not avoid a certain condescension and also contains some conclusions which make little sense. It may be significant that the most coherent chapter is the afterword in which the author talks about her own reaction to food and cooking in the context of her new marriage and living in India. That had a more authentic and less manufactured ring to it. I am never not happy to read about Dorothy Wordsworth or Barbara Pym and the sections on Rosa Lewis, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Helen Gurley Brown also had some interest for me. (Regrettably, I found it impossible to care about Eva Braun's dietary habits.) For the most part this book was entertaining and fun, although I'm not sure there was much of a big overarching theme. But a perfectly pleasant way to spend a few hours. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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"A beloved culinary historian's short takes on six famous women through the lens of food and cooking--what they ate and how their attitudes toward food offer surprising new insights into their lives. Everyone eats, and food touches on every aspect of our lives--social and cultural, personal and political. Yet most biographers pay little attention to people's attitudes toward food, as if the great and notable never bothered to think about what was on the plate in front of them. Once we ask how somebody relates to food, we find a whole world of different and provocative ways to understand her. Food stories can be as intimate and revealing as stories of love, work, or coming-of-age. Each of the six women in this entertaining group portrait was famous in her time, and most are still famous in ours; but until now, nobody has told their lives from the point of view of the kitchen and the table. It's 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, Hitler's 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"-- Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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