Chemistry lessons
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Chemistry lessons
19.99 €
Everyone is afraid of Elizabeth Zott. Some are afraid of her mind, some are afraid of the sharp pencil she wears in her hair, and some are afraid of the fourteen-inch knife in her purse (after all, every self-respecting cook uses only his own knives).
A bizarre twist of fate led her from the Hastings Research Institute, where she dreamed of studying abiogenesis (the theory of the origin of life from inorganic substances), to television, where she hosts the most popular cooking show in the country, Dinner at Six. “Cooking is chemistry,” she says. “And chemistry is life. It gives us the opportunity to change everything, including ourselves.”
Meanwhile, her five-year-old daughter Madeleine, growing up under the care of a mine-detection dog named Six-Thirty, is trying to find Nabokov and Norman Mailer in the school library, and to build a family tree that should include the soon-to-be Nobel laureate in chemistry Calvin Evans, a fairy godmother, a grandfather in a striped prison uniform, and a grandmother who hid from the tax police in Brazil...
A bizarre twist of fate led her from the Hastings Research Institute, where she dreamed of studying abiogenesis (the theory of the origin of life from inorganic substances), to television, where she hosts the most popular cooking show in the country, Dinner at Six. “Cooking is chemistry,” she says. “And chemistry is life. It gives us the opportunity to change everything, including ourselves.”
Meanwhile, her five-year-old daughter Madeleine, growing up under the care of a mine-detection dog named Six-Thirty, is trying to find Nabokov and Norman Mailer in the school library, and to build a family tree that should include the soon-to-be Nobel laureate in chemistry Calvin Evans, a fairy godmother, a grandfather in a striped prison uniform, and a grandmother who hid from the tax police in Brazil...
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