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This book offers a series of concise, insightful portraits of six notable women, viewed through the lens of their eating habits and culinary attitudes. By exploring what they ate and how they approached food, the author uncovers surprising dimensions of their personal lives, cultural contexts, and social positions. The six figures—Dorothy Wordsworth, Rosa Lewis, Eleanor Roosevelt, Eva Braun, Barbara Pym, and Helen Gurley Brown—span from the Romantic era to modern media, each illustrating how food intersects with identity, ambition, and the public narrative.
First publish date: 2017
Genre: Biography & Autobiography/Biography
Authors: Laura Shapiro
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