{"product_id":"9780008281083","title":"What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘If you find the subject of food to be both vexing and transfixing, you’ll love \u003cem\u003eWhat She Ate\u003c\/em\u003e’ \u003cem\u003eElle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDorothy Wordsworth believed that feeding her poet brother, William, gooseberry tarts was her part to play in a literary movement.\u003cbr\u003eCockney chef Rosa Lewis became a favourite of King Edward VII, who loved her signature dish of whole truffles boiled in Champagne.\u003cbr\u003eEleanor Roosevelt dished up Eggs Mexican – a concoction of rice, fried eggs, and bananas – in the White House.\u003cbr\u003eEva Braun treated herself to Champagne and cake in the bunker before killing herself, alongside Adolf Hitler.\u003cbr\u003eBarbara Pym's novels overflow with enjoyment of everyday meals – of frozen fish fingers and Chablis – in midcentury England.\u003cbr\u003eCosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown's idea of “having it all” meant having almost nothing on the plate except a supersized portion of diet gelatin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the irresistible \u003cem\u003eWhat She Ate\u003c\/em\u003e, Laura Shapiro examines the plates, recipe books and shopping trolleys of these six extraordinary women, casting a new light on each of their lives – revealing love and rage, desire and denial, need and pleasure.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Laura Shapiro","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47284812087445,"sku":"9780008281083","price":11.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780008281083.jpg?v=1776992393","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780008281083","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}