this book should be shelved in the fantasy section. Maisel.Ī female chemist in the ‘50s? Great! Count me in. The synopsis describes this book as “laugh out loud funny”, recommended for fans of Where’d You Go Bernadette and The Marvelous Mrs.
Laugh-out-loud funny, shrewdly observant, and studded with a dazzling cast of supporting characters, Lessons in Chemistry is as original and vibrant as its protagonist. She’s daring them to change the status quo. 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. True chemistry results.īut like science, life is unpredictable. Except for one: Calvin Evans the lonely, brilliant, Nobel–prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with-of all things-her mind.
But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. And we have the power to fix it.Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780385547345.Ĭhemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. But the truth is, we are very much responsible for the badness of the world. I think it teachers us that nothing is really our fault that something or someone else is pulling the strings that ultimately, we're not to blame for the way things are that to improve things, we should pray. "Well," he said, realizing he'd never seen it that way before, "I agree that society leaves much to be desired, but when it comes to religion, I tend to think it humbles us-teaches us our place in the world." Even a basic understanding of chemistry reveals the danger of such a lopsided approach."
"I mean by artificial cultural and religious policies that put men in the highly unnatural role of single-sex leadership. When women understand these basic concepts, they can begin to see the false limits that have been created for them." "The real rules that govern the physical world. "I'm referring to atoms and molecules, Roth," she explained. Because when women understand chemistry, they begin to understand how things work." “That's why I wanted to use Supper at Six to teach chemistry.
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