Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing.
But it's the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute take 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, life is unpredictable. 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. 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.
Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus
Read for our f2f bookclub gathering, most of the other member's liked this one. I don't have the right sense of humour obviously but I just didn't get the funny and frankly found the misogyny awful, the superiority got up my nose, and the homophobia....
It also smacked of revisionist history and right now, at this point in time, with the way the world is, DO NOT try and pretend to me that back in the 1950s women had options.