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Afternoon tea with author Laura Shapiro

November 4, 2017 | 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm

$15

Culinary historian LAURA SHAPIRO will read from and discuss her critically acclaimed new book What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories. It’s a diverse collection of women, including Rosa Lewis, the Cockney caterer who cooked her way up the social ladder; Eleanor Roosevelt, protector of the worst cook in White House history; Eva Braun, Hitler’s mistress; and Helen Gurley Brown, the editor of Cosmopolitan; as well as Barbara Pym, whose deft descriptions of food illuminate her characters and upend our stereotypes about postwar British cuisine. The reading will be followed by afternoon tea. Sponsored by the Barbara Pym Society.

$15 per person, payable at the event in cash or by credit card. Reservations are required, please email barbarapymsociety@gmail.com by October 30.

Details

Date:
November 4, 2017
Time:
2:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Cost:
$15
Event Category:
Website:
http://www.barbara-pym.org/Pym_tea_2017.pdf

Organizer

Barbara Pym Society
Email:
barbarapymsociety@gmail.com
Website:
www.barbara-pym.org

Venue

The Church of the Advent
30 Brimmer St
Boston, MA 02108 United States
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Did You Know?

Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.