What We Eat When We Eat Alone: Stories and 100 Recipes

"I am hooked on this book. You'll smile knowingly, muse a lot, maybe blush, get hungry and probably end up in the kitchen, enjoying every bite of eating alone. This is another keeper from Deborah Madison." -Lynne Rosetto Kasper, Host of public radio's national food show, The Splendid Table from American Public Media "A truly intimate, startling, funny, and genuinely subversive book." -Peter Coyote, actor and author of Sleeping Where I Fall "A fine romance between a Yankee cook and a Southern artist, whose love of friends and of each other is as clear as their love of food." -Betty Fussell, author of Raising Steaks: The Life & Times of American Beef "I consider eating alone a greater hazard than drinking alone. Then along comes this book, which makes canceling my dinner date tonight in favor of a fried egg on asparagus in an armchair seem like the most desirable thing on earth!" -Laura Calder, television host and food writer "This is a perfectly charming book, loaded with easy-to-try recipes. I love the notion of exploring our lonely- or alone-eating life. And the illustrations are scrumptious-vivid, funny, bold." -Natalie Goldberg, author of Writing Down the Bones "A truly unique book . . . and there's no reason to doubt that the recipes live up to the quality of the text and the genius of the sketches." -Patrick Oliphant, artist, cartoonist, and card-carrying vegetarian