Current TBR - Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

Monday, October 16, 2023




Have you watched Lessons in Chemistry yet? I’m reading it now before I watch the series. I always have to read the book before I watch the movie.

From the jacket:

Chemist Elizabeth Zoltan is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zoltan would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans, the lonely, brilliant, Nobel Prize-nominated grudge holder who falls in love with-of all things-her mind. True chemistry results.

Like science, though, life is unpredictable. Which is why a few years later Elizabeth Zoltan finds herself not only a single mother but also the reluctant star of America’s most beloved cooking show, Supper at Six. Elizabeth’s unusual approach to cooking (“combine one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride”) proves revolutionary. But as her following grows, not everyone is happy. Because, as it turns out, Elizabeth Zott isn’t just teaching women to cook. She’s daring them to change the status quo.


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