Quote by Laura Shapiro

“Julia’s attitude toward British food—that it was inedible, that it had little relevant history apart from being inedible, and that a more sensible population…

— Laura Shapiro

“Tell me what you ate when you were a child, and whether the memory cheers you up or not.”

— Laura Shapiro

“These new friends had fought for suffrage, they had won, and now they were determined to use the vote to advance women’s interests. They…

— Laura Shapiro

“At Cornell she had discovered that domesticity had a brain; here, in the beloved, safe home that was entirely hers, she was learning that…

— Laura Shapiro

“I had erected someone outside myself who was the President’s wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I…

— Laura Shapiro

“Hitler’s aide, used to see her sitting with Hitler in his study at night, wearing a dressing gown, having champagne while he drank tea.”

— Laura Shapiro

“To be a wife was to cook. Not to eat—that was a different matter entirely—but to cook.”

— Laura Shapiro

“But what struck me as I followed the paper trail through each life was that while extraordinary circumstances produce extraordinary women, food makes them…

— Laura Shapiro

“Her favorite place to watch human behavior was a restaurant, for there she could sit quietly in the background while people interacted with food.…

— Laura Shapiro

“Culinary historians looking back at the first decades of the twenty-first century will be blessed with vast quantities of material to study, thanks to…

— Laura Shapiro

“We’re meant to read the lives of important people as if they never bothered with breakfast, lunch, or dinner, or took a coffee break,…

— Laura Shapiro

“After all, academic reputations were at stake. Home cooking was associated with women, which was bad enough, and housework, which was fatal. Luckily”

— Laura Shapiro