Jell-O Girls: A Family History, (Paperback)

from bogopea

Jello-O Girls is a memoir by a descendant of the people who bought the Jell-O patent in 1899. From then until the present, though the family has been financially set and immensely privileged, Rowbottom posits that a "curse" beset the family and manifested itself in suicides, cancer, alcoholism an...

from brangwinn

Jello was the staple of my childhood and the red, white and blue salad still is required at my 4th of July celebrations. It saddened me to read the story of a grandmother, mother and daughter whose wealth came from the sale of Jello, not to have a happy life. Money doesn't make you happy. I liked...

from ecataldi

Beautifully written, albeit a bit meandering. This family memoir (memwah) is written by the daughter of a strong and spirited mother and grandmother. Born into the Jell-O money, they may not have wanted for material things, but their emotional and physical lives were never bettered by their famil...

from CarrieWuj

There is a lot going on in this book. Allie Rowbottom covers the history of Jell-o and the way it is intertwined with her own family history (her great-great-great uncle bought the patent in 1899), so there is are those 2 threads. Then there is a treatise of sorts on Jell-o's role in constricting...

from akblanchard

Author Allie Rowbottom, a fourth generation heiress to the Jell-O fortune, contends that her family is under a curse related to the time-honored gelatin dessert. This curse manifests itself in various ways, from squabbles over money to alcoholism, mental illness, incest, and even cancer. Drawing ...