Everyone is afraid of Elizabeth Zott. Some fear her intellect, others the sharply sharpened pencil she wears in her hair, and still others the fourteen-inch knife in her handbag (after all, every self-respecting cook uses only their own knives). A whimsical twist of fate took her from the Hastings Research Institute, where she dreamed of studying abiogenesis (the theory of the origin of life from inorganic matter), to television, where she hosts the country's most popular cooking show, "Supper at Six." "Cooking is chemistry," she says. "And chemistry is life. It gives us the opportunity to change everything, including ourselves." Meanwhile, her five-year-old daughter, Madeline, growing up under the supervision of a bomb-sniffing dog named Six-Thirty, is trying to find Nabokov and Norman Mailer in the school library, as well as build a family tree that must find a place for a Nobel Prize-worthy chemist, Calvin Evans, a fairy godmother, a grandfather in a striped prison uniform, and a grandmother hiding from the tax police in Brazil... In the fall of 2023, Apple TV+ released an adaptation of the novel. The lead role was played by Brie Larson ("Captain Marvel"), who also served as an executive producer. The series received ten Emmy Award nominations (winning one) and two Golden Globe nominations.
