Laura Shapiro was a columnist at The Real Paper (Boston) before beginning a sixteen-year-run at Newsweek, where she covered food, women's issues, and the arts, and won several journalism awards. Her reviews and features have appeared in numerous publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times, Gourmet, the Atlantic, and Slate. She is the author of Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century; Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America; Julia Child, and What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories.
