Concierge Pick · Autumn 2026
A brilliant chemist in the 1960s is forced out of her lab and onto a television cooking show, where she teaches women far more than how to make dinner.
Witty, sharp and unexpectedly moving. Elizabeth Zott refuses to be anyone's assistant, and the book is as much about taking up space as it is about cooking.
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