I guess I should first mention that I’m sure a lot of readers will hate this book. It stayed excellent, and darkly humorous, and it gets my recommendation for readers to go read this book. Please, please don’t fuck this up!” When I read the final page, I sighed with relief. Laugh-out-loud funny, shrewdly observant, and studded with a dazzling cast of supporting characters, Lessons in Chemistry is as original and vibrant as its protagonist.Īs I headed down the backstretch of reading “Lessons in Chemistry,” I kept thinking “Don’t lose me right at the end. She’s daring them to change the status quo.

Because as it turns out, Elizabeth Zott isn’t just teaching women to cook. But as her following grows, not everyone is happy. Elizabeth’s unusual approach to cooking (“combine one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride”) proves revolutionary. 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. True chemistry results.īut like science, life is unpredictable.

Except for one: Calvin Evans the lonely, brilliant, Nobel–prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with-of all things-her mind. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman.

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