What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women And The Food That Tells Their Stories

"Eleanor Roosevelt was famously indifferent to food: During her tenure, White House lunches were moments of dread, or at least digestive difficulty. But as food historian Laura Shapiro demonstrates in What She Ate, the first lady’s attitude toward White House meals was intimately linked to her troubled marriage; elsewhere in life, she relished things like crab legs or a “delicious Arab dinner” in 1952. Shapiro takes this culinary-detective approach to six prominent women, revealing rich details of their inner lives through their relationships with food (or, in Helen Gurley Brown’s case, the lack thereof)."