![]() ![]() These women at home were often dismissed as average housewives and or, you know, plain Janes, average housewives. GARMUS: I think what makes her show popular is that she treats her audience with respect. SIMON: What do you think makes Elizabeth's television show so popular? SIMON: Elizabeth Zott ends every show by saying, children, set the table. However, boy, we have come some way (laughter), I'm thrilled to report. But I also set it then because that's when my mom was a mom with four kids, and it gave me the opportunity to look at her life through a completely different lens and see what it must have been like for her to live under such severe limitations. One was I kind of needed some reassurance that things have gotten better since the 1960s for women. She seems like a chemical element suspended in a different time almost. She - and so much of your book is absolutely chemistry. SIMON: Tell us about Elizabeth Zott in the early 1960s. ![]() But her TV show, "Supper At Six," and what she calls vinegar and salt - acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride - becomes a huge hit in Bonnie Garmus' debut novel, "Lessons In Chemistry." And Bonnie Garmus, who's been a copywriter, creative director and open-water swimmer, joins us now from London. ![]() Elizabeth Zott is a chemist who hosts a cooking show because it's the early 1960s and sexism, double standards, outright assault, scientific theft and discrimination all keep her from working as an actual scientist. ![]()
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