How these famous women used food as social status
Clip: 10/19/2017 | 7m 24sVideo has Closed Captions
A new culinary history examines class and socioeconomics through cooking and eating.
Every food story is an economic story, says author Laura Shapiro. In "What She Ate," Shapiro offers tales of female empowerment or self-definition by way of the kitchen and dinner table, cooking up portraits of Eleanor Roosevelt, Eva Braun, Helen Gurley Brown and others. Economics correspondent Paul Solman reports.
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How these famous women used food as social status
Clip: 10/19/2017 | 7m 24sVideo has Closed Captions
Every food story is an economic story, says author Laura Shapiro. In "What She Ate," Shapiro offers tales of female empowerment or self-definition by way of the kitchen and dinner table, cooking up portraits of Eleanor Roosevelt, Eva Braun, Helen Gurley Brown and others. Economics correspondent Paul Solman reports.
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