How Does Chemistry Impact Life?
What was your experience with chemistry like in high school? Have you ever considered how life skills like cooking utilize chemistry? These are qualities that I had never considered. In the book Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus explores this through the character of Elizabeth Zott. This is her story: About the Book: "Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel–prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with—of all things—her mind. True chemistry results. But like science, life is unpredictable. Which is why a few years later Elizabeth Zott finds herself not only a single mother, but the reluctant star of America’s most beloved cooking show Supper at...