Community Wide Event

Hosted by Temple Shir Shalom

Monday, August 14, 2017
Starting at 7:00pm

Temple Shir Shalom’s

PHOTO BY HEINRICH HOFFMAN. BAVARIAN STATE LIBRARY MUNICH/HOFFMAN COLLECTION

FOOD FUN AND FIREWORKS FESTIVAL

begins with an evening loaded with family
fun, food tastings and games, and ends with
a spectacular fireworks display!

TEMPLE

“What emerges most vividly in Eva’s relationship to food,” author Laura Shapiro writes, “is her
powerful commitment to fantasy. She was swathed in it, eating and drinking at Hitler’s table in a
perpetual enactment of her own daydreams.”

overbearing mother-in-law, her
husband’s infidelities and a lack of
interest in the traditional duties of
the first lady.
Eleanor Roosevelt hired an inex-
perienced housekeeper to oversee
the White House kitchen, resulting

sauce cake. When she wasn’t “the
President’s wife,” Shapiro writes,
Eleanor Roosevelt “learned what
food could mean when love did the
cooking.”
The book’s afterword includes
Shapiro’s effort to reconcile her

“What is wrong with being obsessed
with trivia?” Barbara Pym asked
in her notebook.

To tempt your palate, some
of the area’s most popular
restaurants will be on hand
to help us celebrate.

SHIR

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in barely edible meals like Jellied
Bouillon Salad and Eggs Mexican
(rice topped with bananas and
fried eggs). Roosevelt often was
traveling across the country to
campaign for minimum-wage laws
and equal pay for women, and food
was the last of her concerns. She
also developed an interest in the
burgeoning field of home econom-
ics, in which food was utilitarian,
and the priority was cost and nour-
ishment, not taste or enjoyment.
Shapiro does find some cases,
though, in which Roosevelt did
enjoy food, and they all took place
outside of the White House. At a
weekend in the country with some
women friends, she wrote that she
enjoyed making salads and set-
ting a pretty table. For an intimate
friend and former bodyguard,
Earl Miller, she happily baked
biscuits and made him an apple-

own experience with food. She
married in the 1970s and moved
with her husband to India, where
she was surprised to find her-
self desperate to fill a traditional
domestic role of cooking American
dishes for her husband.
“It was a wonderful time to be a
feminist,” she said. “So there I was,
a very happy, hard-working femi-
nist. I found myself married and
plummeted back into the 1950s,
which was not an image or a world
that I ever wanted to be in.”
Soon she learned to master veg-
etable curries and fried veggie pak-
oras, based on recipes in the Time-
Life book The Cooking of India.
Like the six women she profiles
in What She Ate, Shapiro learned
that understanding her relation-
ship with food could help untangle
other anxieties about career, family
and the meaning of home. •

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Looking To Join Temple Shir
Shalom? Bring The Whole
Family ON US!

Call Temple Shir Shalom’s office to
arrange for your complimentary
tickets. Come get to know us!

248-737-8700

FUN

AND

F A I U RE G W U O S R T K 14 S

2017

Music and entertainment provided by

Star Trax

EVERYONE IS WELCOME!

 PER ADULT s  PER CHILD

Tickets can be purchased online at www.shirshalom.org
or by calling Temple Shir Shalom’s office at 248-737-8700

Corporate Sponsorship Opportunities are available.

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