The issue falls more with me and the mood I was in for funny from the off. It does however, have that lightness of touch and pleasantly surreal feel to it from the beginning. I had seen reviews saying that readers had found it humorous from the start but there are issues and incidents that Elizabeth has to face that are the opposite of humorous. I’ll admit I didn’t fall in love with the book during the first half.
She’s going to start a chain reaction that challenges the role of women in the 1960s. But if she’s going to be a TV cook then she’ s going to do it her way, with chemistry. But circumstances, mainly chauvanistic men, have led to her needing to earn money and so she finds herself the star of Supper at Six. She is certainly not someone who should be the host of a TV cookery show. She’s daring them to change the status quo.Įlizabeth Zott is a scientist. Because as it turns out, Elizabeth Zott isn’t just teaching women to cook. But as her following grows, not everyone is happy. Elizabeth’s unusual approach to cooking (‘combine one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride’) proves revolutionary. Which is why a few years later, Elizabeth Zott finds herself not only a single mother, but the reluctant star of America’s most beloved cooking show, Supper at Six. Except for one: Calvin Evans, the lonely, brilliant, Nobel-prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with – of all things – her mind. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing.īut it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute take a very unscientific view of equality. Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman.
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