What she ate : six remarkable women and the food that tells their stories

"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...