Podcast appearances and mentions of laura shapiro

This is a very special episode for me. I love LA --the city, the culture, and especially the people. The fires hit me hard and even more so with the loss of David Lynch.So, I wanted to raise awareness of the hardship people have endured; to debunk some of the more outlandish conspiracy theories involving the fires; and to highlight some of the actual suss happenings.Fortunately, I was able to assemble an All Star panel for this one --and all residents of, or near, LA. Farm favorites Laura Shapiro and Matt Baldwin were joined by Maja D'Aoust and Subliminal Jihad's Dimitri to explore all aspects of the fires --what it was like when they broke out; the corruption in the LA city government that led to this disaster; LA's plans for redevelopment; the lost esoteric treasures/road side attractions; and the UFOs/high weirdness/synchronicities.A week after dreamland went up in flames, the dream master ascended. Thus, the only way to close this one out was to reflect on the mixed legacy of David Lynch -embracing both his artistic brilliance, the love he had in the industry and acknowledging the troubling cult he became a spokesman for.On a personal note, if you can donate to any of the following, please do so. Maja lost everything, including her home and her invaluable library that she started at 15. Matt's friend Skyler is a celebrated musician in the Altadena/Pasadena area who also lost a variety of guitars and gear. Please help them rebuild, along with these sadly lost esoteric landmarks:Maja: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-maja-and-family-rebuild-after-the-eaton-fire?attribution_id=sl:a85c996f-be95-4fdb-8c50-2d6270631f67&utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_linkSkyler/Jasper (Matt's friend): https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-sky-and-jasper-rebuild-after-fire?attribution_id=sl:b96734e7-9364-4b92-81ef-7de469821d07&utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=smsTheosophical Society of Altadena: https://www.altadenahistoricalsociety.org/donate-funds/Zorthian Ranch: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-zorthian-ranch-recoverMusic by: Keith Allen Dennishttps://keithallendennis.bandcamp.com/Additional Music: Matt Baldwinhttps://psychicarts.bandcamp.com/album/wander-the-night Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"Northern Exposure," film/TV, pop culture, 1990s, "Northern Exposure'''s legacy/influence, Pacific Northwest, Joshua Brand, Jeff Falsey, Jeff Melvoin "Twin Peaks," is "Northern Exposure" set in the same universe as "Twin Peaks," Carl Jung, Jungian psychology, Theosophy, magical realism, "Northern Exposure" vs "Twin Peaks," David Lynch, Mark Frost, "One Hundred Years of Solitude," Jungian archetypes, The Double in "Northern Exposure," The Shadow, Judaism, "Northern Exposure" and the Jewish experience in America, Judaism's influence on "Northern Exposure," metaphysics, Native Americans, shamans, synchromysticism, origins of synchromysticism, Robert Anton Wilson, James Shelby Downard, the influence of "Northern Exposure" on the synchromystical movement, community, Arcadia, community as a state of mind, why "Northern Exposure" still matters, "Northern Exposure" as a model of the 21st century communityMusic by: Keith Allen Dennishttps://keithallendennis.bandcamp.com/Additional Music by: Matt Baldwinhttps://psychicarts.bandcamp.com/album/wander-the-night Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How to put America back together? Few people have thought more about this Humpty Dumpty style challenge than Arlie Russell Hochschild, author of the 2016 classic Strangers In Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right. So when I sat down with Hochschild for my new KEEN ON AMERICA series, we began by talking about what it means to her to be American and whether she's ever felt like a stranger in her own land. Born in 1940, my sense is that Hochschild has spent much of her life grappling with what it means to be a progressive American in a mostly conservative country. The Berkeley based Hochschild has made two significant journeys to the American South - the first in early Sixties as a civil rights activist and the second, fifty years later, to research Strangers In Their Own Land. She talked about both journeys as a form of confronting and then resolving her ambivalence about what it means to be an American. These journeys, then, were her way of building what she calls “empathy bridges” with another America. We talked about the American future too. Hochschild believes the work of the sociologist, like the marriage councillor, is a resolve conflict by bringing people together. In contrast with the dark paranoia of many progressives these days, Hochschild is cautiously optimistic about bringing Americans back together. And this conflict-resolution approach, I suspect, will be familiar with many young Americans for whom therapy has been normalized as an essential feature of 21st century life. Arlie Russell Hochschild's Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right, now available in paperback from The New Press, addresses the increasingly bitter political divide in America. A finalist for the National Book Award, and New York Times Best Seller, the book is based on five years of immersion reporting among Tea Party loyalists -- now mostly supporters of Donald Trump. Hochschild tries to bridge an “empathy wall” between the two political sides, to explore the “deep story” underlying the right that remains unrecognized by the left. Mark Danner calls the book “a powerful, imaginative, necessary book, arriving not a moment too soon." Robert Reich writes” Anyone who wants to understand modern America should read this captivating book." In its review, Publisher's Weekly notes: “After evaluating her conclusions and meeting her informants in these pages, it's hard to disagree that empathy is the best solution to stymied political and social discourse.” Her 2012 The Outsourced Self: Intimate Life in Market Times, explores the many ways in which the market enters our modern lives and was named one of the best books of the year by Publishers Weekly. Her other books include: So How's the Family?, The Managed Heart, The Second Shift, The Time Bind, The Commercialization of Intimate Life, The Unexpected Community and the co-edited Global Woman: Nannies, Maids and Sex Workers in the New Economy. In reviewing The Second Shift (reissued in 2012 with a new afterword) Robert Kuttner noted Hochschild's “subtlety of insights” and “graceful seamless narrative” and called it the “best discussion I have read of what must be the quintessential domestic bind of our time.” Newsweek's Laura Shapiro described The Time Bind as “groundbreaking.” In awarding Hochschild the Jesse Bernard Award, the American Sociological Association citation observed her “creative genius for framing questions and lines of insight, often condensed into memorable, paradigm-shifting words and phrases.” A retired U.C. Berkeley professor of sociology, she lives with her husband, the writer Adam Hochschild in Berkeley, California.Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.Keen On is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

Laura Shapiro is portfolio director for medical events at Closer Still Media (CSM) where she's worked at for more than 12 years, during which the company has grown from 20 people to 700.  This episode is about Laura's frontline experience, how serving the sector has changed since 2011. She talks strength in diversity, creating Clinical Pharmacy Congress (CPC), Europe's largest event of its kind, and the value in CSM's carryover learnings from its tech shows.  Answering host James Dickson's questions, Laura goes on to discuss shaping content around the medical market's rules and regulations, delegate bags, sustainability, programme grids/moving away from show guides and breaking the boundaries of Closer Still Media's traditional geography.  

Mentioned in this episode:SBCC President's Office - https://www.sbcc.edu/presidentsoffice/Semper Gumby - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semper_GumbySBCC Board of Trustees - https://www.sbcc.edu/boardoftrustees/Jim Collins - Good to Great - https://www.jimcollins.com/article_topics/articles/good-to-great.html Asilomar Leadership Skills Seminar - https://ccleague.org/event-calendar/2024-asilomar-leadership-skills-seminarCalifornia Community Colleges Association for Occupational Education - https://cccaoe.org/Professor Tom Mahoney - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89V6lK96ZHMTurkey Brine - https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1021473-turkey-brineSpatchcock Turkey - https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/543-roast-spatchcock-turkeyDeep-Fried Turkey - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/14/dining/deep-fried-thanksgiving-turkey.htmlButternut Squash Casserole - https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/22936/butternut-squash-casserole/Cranberry Apple Salad - https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/creamy-cranberry-apple-salad/Chocolate Pie - https://www.thepioneerwoman.com/food-cooking/recipes/a11850/chocolate-pie/Pumpkin Pie - https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1015622-pumpkin-pieSeven Minute Frosting - https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/seven-minute-frosting-recipePumpkin Rolls - https://thegreatbritishbakeoff.co.uk/recipes/all/pumpkin-rolls/Waldorf Salad - https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1018585-the-original-waldorf-saladGreen Bean Casserole - https://www.campbells.com/recipes/green-bean-casserole/Cream Cheese Corn - https://www.food.com/recipe/cream-cheese-corn-47054Mise en Place - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mise_en_placeDog Team Sticky Buns - https://www.food.com/recipe/dog-team-sticky-buns-138400Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/210646/save-me-the-plums-by-ruth-reichl/Julia Child Papers - https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/8/resources/9746What She Ate by Laura Shapiro - https://laurashapirowriter.com/what-she-ate/The Betty Crocker Cookbook - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Crocker_CookbookJoy of Cooking - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_of_CookingL.A. Son by Roy Choi - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/723516/la-son-by-roy-choi-with-tien-nguyen-and-natasha-phan/Fannie Farmer Cookbook - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fannie_FarmerJoystix - https://joystix.band/

Mae Brussell, the Magnin family, Edgar Magnin, Reformed Judaism, the influence of Judaism on Mae Brussell, Mae's background prior to the JFK assassination, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, JFK assassination, Warren Commission, Charles Manson, Northern California in the late 1960s/early 1970s, Zodiac killer, SLA, Jim Jones, People's Temple, Zebra murders, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Chicago Seven, The Big Lebowski, Tom Hayden, Paul Krassner, Addie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Yippies, Robert Anton Wilson, Discordianism, Forteanism, Fortean Society, Charles Winans, Rolling Stone lawsuit, Texas psychedelic scene, Texas scene brought to California, The Realist, Dick Gregory, Larry Flynt, pornography, Mae Brussell as Jewish scholar, the death of Mae Brussell's daughter, false rumors online about the death of her daughter, what became of Mae's documents, the Mae Brussell Research Library, Colonel Michael Aquino, Mae and Mae's family relationship to Michael Aquino Additional information on donating and contributing to the Library can be found here:The Mae Brussell Research Libraryhttps://maebrussellresearchlibrary.com/ The Realist Archives:https://www.ep.tc/realist/Music by: Keith Allen Dennishttps://keithallendennis.bandcamp.com/ Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"Full Circle," HBO Max, Ed Solomon, Steven Soderbergh, Guyana, the circle in metaphysics, magick circles, high vs folk magick, Obeah, Obeah in Guyana, Guyana's bizarre history, British Empire, Sir Walter Raleigh, Roanoke, Shakespeare, Elizabethan England, Salem, Guyana's possible connection to the Salem witch trails, magick and occultism in colonial America, CIA involvement in Guyana, the 1963 coup, Jim Jones, People's Temple, San Francisco in the 1960s/1970s, Patty Hearst, SLA, MK-ULTRA, Zebra murders, Symbionese Liberation Army, Black Panthers, Vacaville Prison, Leo Ryan, Leo Ryan's assassination in Guyana, counterinsurgency, predictive modeling, pacification being run in San Francisco/Oakland, "Bill and Ted" movies, the uncanny, the weird, HP Lovecraft, all art as uncanny, synchromysticism in art and "Full Curcle"Music by: Keith Allen Dennishttps://keithallendennis.bandcamp.com/ Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, we sit down with Laura Shapiro, who witnessed the bustling heart of Liberty in its heyday. Sullivan's was a department store that that was owned and operated by Laura's father and uncle, Irving and Sidney Shapiro. What started as an Army and Navy surplus store turned into a local institution that boomed with Sullivan County's hotel industry.Support the showFollow The Borscht Belt Tattler on socials! Instagram | Facebook | Twitter

In February the CDC released its latest Youth Risk Behavior Survey findings.  Somewhat needless to say the data is discouraging.  For example, in 2021 40% of high school students, 60% of high school female students and 70% of high school LGBQ students reported feeling sad or hopeless. Among other findings, 22% of high school students had seriously considering suicide, 18% made a suicide plan and 10% had attempted suicide - these percentages are the highest reported since the first Youth Risk Behavior survey was first fielded in 2011. During this 36-minute interview Dr. Trede and Ms. Shapiro begin by discussing Youth Risk Behavior Survey findings concerning sadness and hopelessness, data concerning girls, LGBQ students and suicidality generally. They discuss timeliness of care and care integration, self harm, therapeutic approach, alternative therapies, the importance of modeling pro social behaviors, and they note subject areas to improve behavioral health policy including policies to help remove the stigma associated with behavioral health and improve family support.    Dr. Felix Trede serves as the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center/South End Community Health Center Behavioral Health Clinician and Training Coordinator.  Dr. Trede began his career as a clinical case manager/rehabilitation specialist with Bay Cove Human Services in Boston in 2008.  He joined the Behavioral Health team at SECHC as an intern in 2014 before joining as a full-time staff member in 2018.  He earned his Psy.D. at William James College.Ms. Laura Shapiro serves as an East Boston Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner.  Laura's career in pediatric and community health nursing begin in 1999 when she graduated with her BSN from Simmons College. As an RN, Ms. Shaprio worked as a school nurse for the City of Medford.  During that time, she received an M.Ed in educational administration from Bridgewater State University and began her PMHNP studies. She graduated from Northeastern University in 2013 with an advanced practice degree and completed her practicum at Lynn Community Health Center where she provided psychiatric consultations at their school-based health centers.  In 2021, she began working at EBNHC as a mental health nurse practitioner.  Laura also sees patients in private practice and is an adjunct faculty at Northeastern University's Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing program.The CDC's Youth Risk Behavior Survey is at: https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/data/yrbs/yrbs_data_summary_and_trends.htm. Information regarding the East Boston Neighbor Health Center is at: https://www.ebnhc.org/.. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thehealthcarepolicypodcast.com

Enchantment, sacred dance, Gurdjieff, dancing deities, Charles Taylor, porous self, buffered/bounded self, porous self vs the bounded self, historic divide with the rise of secularism, Industrial Revolution, Protestant reformation, enchantment in non-Western cultures, the commonality of the mystical expanse in human culture/history, Deism, Deism as dividing line, artistic movements, Romanticism, magical realism, Aleister Crowley, chaos magic, the value of Crowley's lifestyle vs magical system, Oscar Janiger, Richard Alpert, LSD, Timothy Leary, John Lilly, ketamine, the physical changes in our brain w/ rise of secularism, quantum physics and the brain, the brain as a quantum computer, high weirdness, UFOs, ultraterrestrials, Mandela effect, the use of technology to "pierce the veil," neuroplasticity, the future of enchantment, Sidney Gottlieb, MK-ULTRA Mach IIMusic by: Keith Allen Dennishttps://keithallendennis.bandcamp.com/Sources:https://docs.google.com/document/d/14INbZAe57xs-OSVDBm2zaVqaTyNtu-c4me5zTHLjU9g/edit?usp=sharing Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

September 24, 1902. A new cooking school is set to open at Boston's 30 Huntington Avenue. The rooms will soon be filled with trainee cooks, who will watch in awe as the school's namesake and principal, Fannie Farmer, lectures on everything from boning meats to baking the perfect reception rolls. Farmer is an innovative cook, and a pioneer in a thriving women's culinary movement known as "domestic science." But her school stands at a crossroads of that very movement and begs the question, what is the purpose of food? Who was Fannie Farmer, “the mother of level measurements”? And how did she shape the way we cook and eat today?Special thanks to our guests, Laura Shapiro, author of Perfection Salad; Danielle Dreilinger, author of The Secret History of Home Economics; and Anne Willan, author of Women in the Kitchen. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We're joined by Sumana Harihareswara, a FOSS advocate yes, but also a person of so many other talents! We talk about sketching, standup comedy, and maintainership for the long life of free software projects. (Did you know you can hire Sumana to help on your FOSS project maintainership btw? Sumana runs Changeset Consulting!) We also talk about representation in the FOSS community within the arts (especially narrative arts), and about learning new skills within "no big deal" contexts.Links:Changeset ConsultingSumana's LibrePlanet 2017 keynote: Lessons, myths, and lenses: What I wish I'd known in 1998Producing Open Source SoftwareVidding and some of its origins in the slideshow form (in particular with Kandy Fong's early works)More on fanworks and fan communities and their history at fanlore.orgVid: Pipeline by, as it turns out, Sumana Harihareswara!Vid: Only a Lad by Laura ShapiroVid: Straightening Up the House by eruthros; also see all this other great commentary!The Bug by Ellen UllmanHalt and Catch FireThe Internet's Own Boy, a film and play about Aaron Swartz, which you can watch here in movie form (we're trying to find references to the play version... if you know something we should put up, let us know here!)Steven Levy's Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, and also the critical response Programming is Forgetting: Toward a New Hacker Ethic by Allison ParrishXKCDJulia Styles in GhostwriterSoftware Freedom Conservancy, who is doing a fundraiser right now!Sumana's fundraising vid for Conservancy in 2015Chris's animated ascii art card for Conservancy in 2019 (source code)If you're interested in Sumana's upcoming book on long-term maintenance of FOSS projects, you can contact her for more info!

The guys talk with Laura Shapiro about her new Bill & Ted film book and her ten year relationship with the B&T filmmakers.

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On the latest episode of Inside Julia’s Kitchen, host Todd Schulkin speaks with Laura Shapiro, a culinary historian and author of the 2007 biography ‘Julia Child.’ Todd and Laura discuss why Julia’s legacy endures and whether good biographies must include what people ate. Plus, Laura shares her Julia Moment.Image courtesy of Ellen Warner.Inside Julia's Kitchen is powered by Simplecast.

Amy chats with Laura Shapiro author of "What She Ate"

What do the Pillsbury Bake Off and molecular gastronomy have in common? Culinary historian and food writer Laura Shapiro unwraps the significance of gender to the prestige afforded to different arenas of innovation-driven cuisine by examining the history of the USA’s oldest cooking competition. “Home cooking has always been the kind of cooking that is supposed to kind of go without notice, except in the world of the family, where you're supposed to be rewarded by the happy faces around the table. You’re certainly not supposed to be rewarded in cash.”   --- Ox Tales is produced by Anna Sigrithur and edited by Naomi Duguid and Fiona Sinclair with production help by Thomas Krause.  Music by Thomas Krause and Ava Glendinning.  Find out more by visiting our website at https://www.oxfordsymposium.org.uk/podcast/  

On this week’s show, Claire and Sian talk about the late poet’s book of the year award, and Laura Shapiro joins us to talk about What She Ate

This month, Gilly Smith meets American author, Laura Shapiro whose book ‘What She Ate' looks at six women in history through the food on their tables. And we look at that damning report on Parmesan from Compassion in World Farming with the man who found the story, Philip Lymbery. We've got our usual tales from the producer, plus a slice of life with delicious columnist, Kay Plunkett-Hogge and more recipes from the delicious test kitchen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The BookBully goes a bit crazy talking about new books she's read or is looking forward to reading. Let's just say her eyes are bigger than her reading capacity! BOOK LIST FOR THIS EPISODE: My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti   Brewster by Mark Slouka   The Secret History by Donna Tartt   The World of Tomorrow by Brendan Mathews (yes, only one "t")   The Law of Dreams by Peter Behrens   Saints for All Occasions by J. Courtney Sullivan   Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo   Commonwealth by Ann Patchett   Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi   Mary and O'Neil by Justin Cronin   A Kind of Freedom by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton   The Turner House by Angela Flournoy   Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward   The Resurrection of Joan Ashby by Cherise Wolas   The Age of Perpetual Light by Josh Weil   The New Valley by Josh Weil   Don't I Know You by Marni Jackson   The Good Lord Bird by James McBride   Five-Carat Soul by James McBride   Fresh Complaint by Jeffrey Eugenides   Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks   The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash   The Good People by Hannah Kent   Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan   The Power by Naomi Alderman   Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia   Here in Berlin by Cristina Garcia   Dying: A Memoir by Cory Taylor   The Bright Hour by Nina Riggs   A Secret Sisterhood by Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney   What She Ate by Laura Shapiro   Ranger Games by Ben Blum   An Odyssey by Daniel Mendelsohn   The Child Finder by Rene Tenfold   The Party by Elizabeth Day   White Bodies by Jane Robins   The Smack by Richard Lange   Unraveling Oliver by Liz Nugent   Ferocity by Nicola Lagioia   Me Before You by JoJo Moyes   Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman   Paradise City by Elizabeth Day   Sourdough by Robin Sloan   Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan   Where'd You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple   Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker by Jennifer Chiaverini   Enchantress of Numbers by Jennifer Chiaverini   The Dollhouse by Fiona Davis   The Address by Fiona Davis   One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus   The Vengeance of Mothers by Jim Fergus   The Revolution of the Moon by Andrea Camilleri   The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott   The Twelve-Mile Straight by Eleanor Henderson   Ten Thousand Saints by Eleanor Henderson

From “The Flintstones” to Focus on the Family, the stereotype has long been that men hunt and provide, while women just stir the pot. Thankfully, today many women—and men—reject both that biological essentialism and the resulting division of labor. But what can science tell us about the role our earliest female ancestors played in providing food for themselves and their communities? Meanwhile, given the fact that women have been confined to the kitchen for much of recent Western history, how have they used food as a tool of power and protest, escape, and resistance? Just in time for the holiday season, this episode we dive into two books that take on the science and history of women’s relationship with food. First, science journalist Angela Saini helps us upend conventional wisdom on “women’s work” and biological differences between the sexes; then food historian Laura Shapiro reveals an entirely new side to six well-known women through their culinary biographies. Join us this episode as we hunt, gather, and cook with women throughout history, from feral pigs to Shrimp Wiggle.

Food author Laura Shapiro joins the program to talk about the meals that famous, and infamous, women in history consumed. Then, Dara keeps kale alive with her top recipes.

Did you know that what we eat shapes who we are and vice versa? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with Laura Shapiro, culinary  historian, James Beard award-winning food columnist and book author who looks at the world, society, and women through food. Shapiro has written on every food topic from champagne to Jell-O in her decades-long career, and recognizes cooking as a basic survival skill. Shapiro discusses her work, including her latest book, “What She Ate, Six Remarkable Women & The Food That Tells Their Stories.” She shares highlights from her research into the peculiar eating and cooking habits of famous women, from Cosmopolitan’s Helen Gurley Brown to Hitler’s partner, Eva Braun. Related website: https://laurashapirowriter.com/

Laura Shapiro investigates the foodways of famous women, from Eleanor Roosevelt to Eva Braun; we travel to Okinawa for Blue Seal Ice Cream; we visit Istanbul for the best Turkish kofte; and J. Kenji Lopez-Alt on marinades.

Most biographers pay little attention to people’s attitudes toward food, but once we ask how somebody relates to food, we find a whole world of different and provocative ways to understand her. Historian Laura Shapiro uses the lens of food to look at the lives of six women, each famous in her time, and most are still famous in ours; but until now, nobody has told their lives from the point of view of the kitchen and the table. A Taste of the Past is powered by Simplecast.

A beloved culinary historian’s short takes on six famous women through the lens of food and cooking—what they ate and how their attitudes toward food offer surprising new insights into their lives. WHAT SHE ATE: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories by James Beard Award-winning writer Laura Shapiro is a unique account of the lives of six women from a perspective often ignored by biographers. Each woman in this entertaining group portrait was famous in her time, but until now, no one has explored their lives from the view of the kitchen and the table. James Beard Award-Winning Food Writer LAURA SHAPIRO WHAT SHE ATE: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories Food stories can be as intimate and revealing as stories of love, work, or coming-of-age. Yet most biographers pay little attention to food, as if these great and notable figures never daydreamed about what they wanted to have for dinner or worried about what to serve their guests. Once we consider how somebody relates to food, we find a host of different and provocative ways to understand them. Everyone eats, and food touches on every aspect of our lives—social and cultural, personal and political. Shapiro examines a lively and surprising array of women and how the theme that unites them is a powerful relationship with food: Dorothy Wordsworth, whose food story transforms our understanding of the life she led with her poet brother Rosa Lewis, an Edwardian-era Cockney caterer who cooked her way up the social ladder and would fit right in on Downton Abbey Eleanor Roosevelt, the First Lady notorious for serving the worst food in White House history Eva Braun, Hitler’s mistress who challenges our warm associations with food, family, and table, and whose last meal was famously a cyanide capsule Barbara Pym, whose witty novels upend a host of stereotypes about postwar British cuisine Helen Gurley Brown, the longstanding editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, whose commitment to ‘having it all’ meant having almost nothing to eat except a supersized portion of diet Jell-O www.laurashapirowriter.com ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Laura Shapiro has written on every food topic from champagne to Jell-O for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Slate, Gourmet, and many other publications. She is the author of three classic books of culinary history. Her awards include a James Beard Journalism Award and one from the National Women’s Political Caucus. She has been a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, where she also co-curated the widely acclaimed exhibition Lunch Hour NYC. More recently, Shapiro was featured in Michael Pollan’s Netflix documentary series Cooked (2016).

On an all new episode of Eat Your Words, host Cathy Erway is joined in the studio by Laura Shapiro, a culinary historian and James Beard Journalism Award-winning author. Her forthcoming book, What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories, is a culinary biography of six famous women, including Dorothy Wordsworth, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Eva Braun. Eat Your Words is powered by Simplecast.

It's our monthly episode of forthcoming books we can't wait to read! ::Insert Kermit Arms:: Like every month, Jill and Adam break down some of the books coming out this month that they can't wait to read. So get your TBR lists ready!  Books Mentioned in This Episode The Breakdown by BA Paris Behind Closed Doors by BA Paris Because You Hate To Love Me by Ameriie The Many Lives of Catwoman by Tim Hanley Fierce Kingdom by Gin Phillips The Marriage Pact by Michelle Richmond The Last Magician by Lisa Maxwell Policing the Black Man by Angela J. Davis What She Ate by Laura Shapiro, et. al. The Lying Game by Ruth Ware In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware What Goes Up by Katie Kennedy What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons An Oath of Dogs by Wendy Wagner The Wildling Sisters by Eve Chase Black Rabbit Hall by Eve Chase The Witches of New York by Ami McKay Sorry to Disrupt the Peace by Patty Yumi Cottrell Daughter of the Burning City by Amanda Foody Dangerous Ground: My Friendship with a Serial Killer by M. William Phelps Watch Me Disappear by Janelle Brown Goodbye Vitamin by Rachel Khong In the Days of Rain: A Daughter, A Father, a Cult by Rebecca Stott   Say Hello! Find OverDrive on Facebook at OverDriveforLibraries and Twitter at @ProBookNerds. Email us directly at professionalbooknerds@overdrive.com  Music "Buddy" provided royalty free from www.bensound.com  Podcast Overview We're not just book nerds: we're professional book nerds and the staff librarians who work at OverDrive, the leading app for eBooks and audiobooks available through public libraries and schools. Hear about the best books we've read, get personalized recommendations, and learn about the hottest books coming out that we can't wait to dive into. For more great reads, find OverDrive on Facebook and Twitter.

This week on The Adventure to Civility Podcast: Civility Challenge: Bake a Cake! Glimpse of New York: Martin McDonaugh @ Danny & Eddie's, 1643 1st Ave # 1, New York, NY 10028,(212) 396-2090 With Love from the Past: Technology Barrier The Adventure to Civility Podcast, brought to you by This Past Life NYC: http://www.thispastlifenyc.com. Every week featuring our Civility Challenges and now with Glimpse of New York and interview series featuring interesting businesses, people and stories from the streets of New York and a confessional documenting my third year spending April technologically in the 1950s. Enjoy your Adventure to Civility from This Past Life NYC! Referenced in this Episode: "Something from the Oven" by Laura Shapiro

This week marks the 100th episode of A Taste of the Past; congratulations to our hostess, Linda Pelaccio! To celebrate her 100th episode, Linda is remembering Julia Child’s 100th birthday with food writer and author of Julia Child: A Life, Laura Shapiro. Julia was one of the most natural television personalities, and her joy for teaching cooking was more than apparent. Linda and Laura recall Julia’s accessibility, and her ability to motivate and communicate great cooking methods. They also discuss Julia Child’s influence on culinary culture in the 1950s and 60s – making good food accessible to all, and breaking gender barriers. This episode has been brought to you by Edwards. “She was going straight into the world of very distinguished cooking, and she didn’t look like anyone on television… She was completely unapologetic; she made it fun because it was fun for her.” —Laura Shapiro on A Taste of the Past “Her talent was cooking, her medium was food, but the way she did everything with that food- that was her character.” —Linda Pelaccio on A Taste of the Past

In this episode, Leigh and Kim discuss the history of feminist food studies and how this particular critical lense offers uniquely modern insights into how we view traditional roles held by women in the realm of food. We discovered that until recently, topics relevant to feminism have not been addressed in depth - such as discussions about the value of food preparation in creating family identity, how community cookbooks both preserve culture and function as tools of resistance, and power dynamics behind how food is produced, distributed, cooked, and eaten. Both of us were particularly inspired by Laura Shapiro titled “I Guarantee”: Betty Crocker and the Woman in the Kitchen which unpacks the cultural impact of a famous but fictional figure - Betty Crocker of General Mills - from packaged foods to cookbooks to television and radio. We previously covered Betty's origins in Episode 20: Grain Empires,  but dig deeper into how this character influenced the cooking habits of American homemakers as well as their perceptions about the value of their contributions to the home - especially in contrast to culinary great Julia Child.Along the way we discuss the nature of creativity in the kitchen, and how feeding others performs the critical work of defining and creating “family life.” Leigh and Kim share perspectives on the personal work of cooking and how that dynamic can shift whether one is cooking for self or for others. Finally, discuss efforts by a now-defunct USDA Bureau of Home Economics between 1925 and 1962 to quantify the often invisible work performed by home-makers in farm and rural communities.Sources We Found Helpful for this EpisodeThe Femisphere: Foodies and  Food Politics - Ms. MagazineA Feminist Guide to Cooking - Contexts, American Sociological SocietyRecipe Digitization Project @ Food.Her.StoryBooks We Think You'll  Enjoy ReadingFrom Betty Crocker to Feminist Food Studies: Critical Perspectives on Women and FoodWhy We Cook: Women on Food, Identity, and Connection by Lindsay GardnerPurity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo, Mary DouglasWe would love to connect with youAsWeEat.com, on Instagram @asweeat, join our new As We Eat community on Facebook, or subscribe to the As We Eat Journal.Do you have a great idea