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Lessons in Chemistry: The multi-million-copy bestseller

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Your ability to change everything - including yourself - starts here.

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.

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ISBN9780857528131
PublisherDoubleday
Publication Date04/05/22
Pages400

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  • bubsbubs
    bubsbubs

    22 Followers

    5.0

    When I initially picked up this book, I was already in a mood. I think everyone is aware of recent developments for women all over the world and let me just tell you, I‘ve been angry. And sad. And furious. And so many other things. Reading this book kinda felt like therapy for me. Not because it gives you so much comfort, but because it gives you this wonderful thing called ✨perspective✨. It‘s not just a perspective into how it was, but also into the ongoing fight that we‘re having everyday for women. So many times I wanted to scream at the book for being relatable to my life - a book about a 1950s woman. While I loved this, I also hate it. I shouldn‘t relate to a woman in the 1950s. We should be further along. Every single character in this book is flawed, in the best way possible. It‘s what makes the narration so good; they‘re tragic, weird, over the top, sometimes a whole lot of negative things - but each and everyone of them represents life so perfectly. I can‘t really put into words how long I‘ve been thinking about this book now. How long this will carry with me. So for that, thank you. This is what reading should be about.

    Nov 25, 2024

  • zaramarina
    zaramarina

    29 Followers

    5.0

    Das Buch war einfach erfrischend anders und so interessant das es mich fesselte

    Feb 1, 2025

  • annekinla
    annekinla

    59 Followers

    4.5

    Ein großartiges Buch über eine Frau in den 60iger Jahren, die als Wissenschaftlerin anerkannt und gesehen werden will. Eine Kämpferin, die sich durch schicksalshafte Begegnungen und Ereignissen nicht von ihrem Kurs abbringen lässt, auch wenn sie Kompromisse eingehen muss. Elisabeth ist ein außergewöhnlicher Charakter. Ich liebe ihre stoische Art, ihr Durchsetzungsvermögen, die Art sich über Dinge einfach hinweg setzt und Dinge anzugehen. An ihrer Seite der kluge Halbsieben (wie cool ist bitteschön dieser Hund), die unglückliche Nachbarin Harriet, der selbstbewusstlose Walter, der nicht-so-richtig-an-Gott-glaubende Pfarrer Wakely und natürlich den liebenswerten Naseweis Mad. Ein trauriges und wunderbares Ende, was mich selig das Buch schließen lässt.

    Feb 16, 2025

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pettys_buecherweltOct 21, 2025

Ach guck einer an…Jetzt wird Frask weich wie Butter in der Sonne.

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