"How these famous women used Food as social status" PBS NewsHour 10/19/2017

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SUMMARY:  Every food story is an economic story, says author Laura Shapiro.  In "What She Ate," Shapiro offers tales of female empowerment or self-definition by way of the kitchen and dinner table, cooking up portraits of Eleanor Roosevelt, Eva Braun, Helen Gurley Brown, and others.  Economics correspondent Paul Solman reports.