MixedThe New York Times Book ReviewThe idea behind the culinary historian Laura Shapiro’s new book, What She Ate, which purports to tell the 'food stories' of six notable women...Shapiro attempts to do what Pym does, working backward by examining any mention of food that appears in the historical records of the real-life characters she has chosen, she is less successful ... Of all the women, the writer and Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown perhaps best lends herself to Shapiro’s task.
