What She Ate
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Grief (Saint-Gaudens), 103–4
Guardian, 209
Guide Culinaire (Escoffier), 70, 71
Haber, Barbara, 126
Harding, Warren, 107
Harvey, Henry, 182, 183, 185
Hemingway, Ernest, 92–94
Hibben, Sheila, 120–22
Hill, Georgiana, 37
Hitler, Adolf, 133, 134, 142, 149–50, 163
assassination attempt on, 167
at the Berghof, 136–37, 144–52, 154, 166
Braun’s relationship with, 10, 11, 132, 136–45, 158, 164–68
bunker of, 131–32, 156, 168–72
caviar eaten by, 152
eating habits and lifestyle of, 148, 152–57
Exner and, 156
Fromm and, 159–60
Manziarly and, 156–57, 169, 171
marriage of, 170
Mitford and, 143
Speer and, 131–32, 134
suicide of, 139, 156, 157, 169, 171
vegetarianism of, 11, 147, 152–55
Hobsbawm, Eric, 208
Hockney, David, 208
Hoffmann, Heinrich, 138–41, 154–55, 164
Holt, Hazel, 197
Home & Gardens, 153
home economics, 107–14, 116
Hoover, Herbert, 96
Hoover, Lou Henry, 96
hot buttered rum, 245
Howard, Wren, 203–4
Howe, Louis, 105
How to Dine, or Etiquette of the Dinner Table, 64–65
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, 232–33
Ickes, Harold L., 94, 95
I Hate to Cook Book (Bracken), 230–31
I Love Lucy, 230
India, 259–65
Industrial Revolution, 60
Inside the Third Reich (Speer), 131, 134
International African Institute, 184
Johnson, Hiram, 92
Jones, Robert Edmond, 47
Jones, Thomas, 154
Joy of Cooking (Rombauer), 232
Junge, Traudl, 147, 148, 150–51, 156, 157, 168–71
Kannenberg, Arthur, 152, 153
Keats, John, 211
Kempf, Annemarie, 132
Kerr, Graham, 252
Knight, William, 6, 39
Kroll, Lucy, 233
Ladies’ Home Journal, 91–92
Larkin, Philip, 197, 208
Lash, Joseph, 103
Lawson, Nigella, 230
Lawton, Mary, 47–52, 54, 57, 59, 61, 72, 74, 75, 80–82, 86
League of Nations, 105, 107
League of Women Voters, 107, 115
LeHand, Missy, 114, 124, 126
lesbianism, 247–48
Leslie, Shane, 85
Lewis, Excelsior, 54–56
Lewis, Rosa, 7, 9–10, 13, 46–90, 49, 174
American southern food and, 74–75
Cavendish Hotel of, 46, 49, 55–56, 61, 70, 72, 75, 77, 80–89
Cockney accent of, 10, 48, 58, 62–63, 80, 85, 89
death of, 89–90
early life of, 50–51
earnings of, 54
as eccentric, 83, 87, 88
Escoffier and, 71
Gardner and, 88–89
haute cuisine chosen by, 63, 65
ingredients and, 71–72, 82
King Edward and, 46, 47, 53, 55–57, 72, 75–77, 79
Lady Randolph Churchill and, 53, 58, 59, 61
Lawton and, 47–52, 54, 57, 59, 61, 72, 74, 75, 80–82, 86
marriage of, 54–56
Milledge and, 74
Newnham-Davis and, 77–80, 87
quail pudding of, 78–9
Ribblesdale and, 59, 81
as servant, 50–51, 58, 61
at Sheen House, 51–53, 58
World War I and, 80–81
Liddell, Robert, 184
Life, 137, 138, 226, 237
Ligue des Gourmands, 69, 72
Lindberg, Gladys, 220–21, 223
Lindberg, Walter, 220–21
Linge, Heinz, 147, 150, 155, 158, 164, 168–69
Lister, Charles, 81
Lloyd George, David, 154
Long, Ava, 96
Low, Juliette Gordon, 74–75
Low, William, 74
Lucas, Dione, 230
Luhan, Mabel Dodge, 5–6
Mad Men, 233
Malraux, André, 207–8
Manchester Guardian, 174
Manners and Tone of Good Society, 65
Manton, Jo, 32
Manziarly, Constanze, 156–57, 169, 171
Marie Claire, 253
Marlborough, Duke of, 67
Marshall, Agnes, 69–70
Marshall, Jane, 33, 43
Maschler, Tom, 204, 208
Mein Kampf (Hitler), 154
Mein Kriegstagebuch (Feuersenger), 162
Mennecke, Friedrich, 135
Mercer, Lucy, 102–3, 125, 126
Messengers of Day (Powell), 83
Miami News, 238
Milledge, Mosianna, 74
Miller, Earl, 129–30
Misch, Robert, 243
Miss Mackenzie (Trollope), 67–68
Miss Universe pageant, 220
Mitford, Unity Valkyrie, 143
Modern Maturity, 253
Moore, Marianne, 241
Moore, Mary Tyler, 233
Moresby, 38
Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management (Beeton), 50–51
Musmanno, Michael, 139, 156
My Fair Lady, 57
National Catholic Register, 252
National Cookbook, The (Hibben), 121
National Gallery, 59
National Training School of Cookery, 69
Nazi Germany, 137, 140, 142–44, 151–52
champagne in, 158–63, 172
concentration camps of, 135, 171
food in, 134–36, 148–51, 161–63
France occupied by, 160–61
Nuremberg Laws in, 142
stew Sundays in, 149–50
Nesbitt, Henrietta, 115–23, 126, 130
New Century Cookery Book, The (Senn), 79
Newnham-Davis, Nathaniel, 71, 77–80, 87
Newton, Matthew, 30
New York magazine, 224–25
New Yorker, 83, 85, 121, 137, 160, 209, 239
New York Times, 9, 72, 94, 113, 120, 242
New York Times Magazine, 153
Nichols, Nell B., 5
Nicolson, Harold, 65
O’Brien, Edna, 180
Paris, 127–28
Nazi occupation of, 160–61
Paris, Comte de, 51–52, 58, 71
Parks, Lillian Rogers, 116–18, 123, 124
Party-Giving on Every Scale, 65
peanut butter, 5
Pictorial Review, 47–48
Playboy, 12, 236, 239
Pommery, 62
Porch, Montagu, 59
Postgate, Raymond, 200–203, 210
Powell, Anthony, 83–84
Presidential Cookbook, The (Nesbitt), 119
Price, George Ward, 154
Publishers Weekly, 252
Pygmalion (Shaw), 57–58, 60, 62–64
Pym, Barbara, 6–7, 11–13, 173–212, 175
death of, 212
diaries and notebooks of, 11, 176, 181, 185–90, 206, 207, 212
Excellent Women, 173, 187–93, 200
A Few Green Leaves, 210, 212
food and, 7, 11–12, 174–78, 180–82, 185, 187–200, 209–12
A G
lass of Blessings, 200
at International African Institute, 184
Jane and Prudence,199–200
Less Than Angels, 194, 205
menus of, 197–98
No Fond Return of Love, 194, 195, 200, 205
at Oxford, 181–83, 211
Quartet in Autumn, 194, 196, 208, 209
rediscovery of, 179, 207–9
rejection years of, 203–7
relationships of, 182–84
Some Tame Gazelle, 176–78, 182–85
The Sweet Dove Died, 184, 194, 200, 207–9, 211
An Unsuitable Attachment, 195, 203–5
Pym, Hilary, 184, 187, 197–98, 208, 210
quail pudding, 73, 78–79
Queen of Cooks, The, see Lawton, Mary
Radcliffe, Mary, 36
Raubal, Angela, 152
Ravensbrück, 135, 171
Reno, Janet, 246
Réunion des Gastronomes, 72
Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 161, 168
Ribblesdale, Thomas Lister, Lord, 59, 81
Rieman, Margo, 248–49
Right Way to His Heart, The (Board), 193
Robinson, Henry Crabb, 42, 44
Rock Creek Cemetery, 103–4
Rockwell, Norman, 7, 8
Rombauer, Irma, 230
Roosevelt, Anna, 124
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 7, 10, 12, 13, 91–130, 93
cooking lessons of, 104, 107–8
as First Lady, 114–15
Franklin’s death and, 125–26
Franklin’s infidelity and, 102–3, 126
friends of, 105–7, 110, 125, 129–30
home economics movement and, 107–14, 116
homemaking of, 98–100, 104, 112, 129–30
houses of, 100–101, 125
marriage of, 10, 97, 99, 100, 102–3, 112, 124–26
memoirs of, 92, 99, 100, 104, 106, 130
Miller and, 129–30
motherhood of, 99, 101–2, 112
“My Day” column of, 97, 123, 127, 129
Nesbitt and, 115–17, 120, 123–24, 126, 130
post–White House life of, 127–30
progressive principles and political involvement of, 105–7, 110
religious faith of, 103
Rock Creek Cemetery visited by, 103–4
Sunday-night suppers of, 98–99, 124
travels of, 124, 127–28
warmth and hospitality of, 97, 123
White House food and, 91–98, 113–14, 117–23, 126
Roosevelt, Elliott, 122
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 10, 12, 91–92, 95, 97, 106, 112, 115, 130
assassination attempt on, 110
death of, 125–26, 127
Eleanor’s friends and, 107
elected president, 113–15
houses of, 100–101, 125
LeHand and, 114, 124, 126
marriage of, 10, 97, 99, 100, 102–3, 112, 124–26
Mercer and, 102–3, 125, 126
Nesbitt and, 117, 118, 122–23
polio contracted by, 104, 105
political career of, 102, 103, 105
Roosevelt, James, 91, 117, 129
Roosevelt, Sara Delano, 100–103, 111, 112
Rose, Flora, 108–10, 113
Royal Opera House, 76
Rydal Mount, 31, 34, 39, 41–42
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 103–4
St. James’s Church, Piccadilly, 90
salads:
in America, 119–20
in England, 189–90
Sandburg, Carl, 233
Sargent, John Singer, 59
Saturday Evening Post, 137–38
Savoy Hotel, 69, 70
Schirach, Henrietta von, 164–65
Schneider, Herta, 169
Schroeder, Christa, 156
Scott, Paul, 209
Seducer’s Cookbook, The (Sheraton), 242
Senn, Charles Herman, 79
Shand, Morton, 174, 177
Shangri-La, 125
Shaw, George Bernard, 64
Pygmalion, 57–58, 60, 62–64
Sheen House, 51–53, 58
Sheraton, Mimi, 242
Shirer, William L., 152–53, 160
Simpson, Helen, 177–78
Smith, Al, 108
Smith, Bob, 204–6
Smith, Howard K., 161
Speer, Albert, 145–46, 149–52, 163, 168
Braun and, 131–34, 136, 158, 168, 169
Hitler and, 131–32, 134
Speer, Margarete, 147
Springwood, 101
Staying On (Scott), 209
Stein, Gertrude, 5–6
Steinem, Gloria, 254–55
Suckley, Daisy, 125
Summer Cooking (David), 189
Table, The, 70
Tatler, 205
Taylor, A. J. P., 208
Tea with Miss Pym, 209
Thirkell, Angela, 185
Thompson, Malvina, 130
Three Weeks (Glyn), 83
Time Out of Mind (Field), 97–98
Times (London), 208–9
Times Literary Supplement (TLS), 205, 207–8
Toklas, Alice B., 5–6
Trevor-Roper, Hugh, 207–8
trivia, 6–7, 207
Trollope, Anthony, 67–68, 179, 185
Truman, Bess, 123
Truman, Harry, 123
Tugwell, Rexford, 95
Tully, Grace, 122
Until the Final Hour (Junge), 147, 148, 150–51
Updike, John, 180
USA Today, 246
Val-Kill, 125
Van Rensselaer, Martha, 108, 110
Vassiltchikov, Marie, 162
Victoria, Queen, 53, 59, 75
Vile Bodies (Waugh), 86–87
Village Voice, 254
Wagner, Friedelind, 155
Warm Springs, Ga., 125
Washington Post, 94
Waters, Alice, 200
Watson, George, 248
Waugh, Evelyn, 86–87
West, J. B., 117, 124–25
West, Rebecca, 208
whitebait, 65–66
White House Diary (Nesbitt), 116, 120, 123
Whitwick, 20, 31–35, 37–40, 44
Wilhelm II, Kaiser, 57
Wilson, A. N., 191, 193
Wilson, Woodrow, 102
wine, 94–95
see also champagne
Women’s Democratic News, 106
Woman’s Home Companion, 5
women’s movements, see feminism
Woof, Pamela, 28
Woolf, Virginia, 212
Wordsworth, Dora, 41, 44
Wordsworth, Dorothy, 3–4, 6–10, 13, 15–45, 17
black pudding eaten by, 3, 15, 16, 34–35, 37, 38
at Dove Cottage, 3, 16, 19, 20, 23, 29–31, 33, 37
Grasmere Journal of, 6, 15–16, 18–21, 24, 28–30, 32, 33, 37, 39, 40
illness and dementia of, 3–4, 37–45
laudanum taken by, 39
at Whitwick, 20, 31–35, 37–40, 44
Wordsworth, John (brother of William), 21, 37
Wordsworth, John (son of William), 3, 30–34, 38
Wordsworth, Mary Hutchinson, 21, 24, 26, 29, 30, 34, 39, 41, 43, 44
children of, 30–31
William’s marriage to, 3, 15, 16, 21–22, 27–29
Wordsworth, William, 3, 6, 8–9, 15, 18–31, 38, 40–42, 44
affair of, 18
children of, 30–31
at Dove Cottage, 3, 16, 19, 20, 23, 29�
��31, 33, 37
gingerbread eaten by, 19, 23, 30
marriage of, 3, 15, 16, 21–22, 27–29
World War I, 54, 57, 80–81, 110, 134
World War II, 96, 117–18, 173, 174, 183
Braun’s attitude toward, 166–67
Wright, James, 196
LAURA SHAPIRO has written on every food topic from champagne to Jell-O for Newsweek, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Gourmet, and many other publications. She is the author of three classic books of culinary history: Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century, Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America, and Julia Child. Her awards include a James Beard Journalism Award and one from the National Women’s Political Caucus. She has been a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, where she also co-curated the widely acclaimed exhibition Lunch Hour NYC.
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