I read this book because I have had a 30 year love affair with Deborah Madison, going back to her Tassahara days (she and Ed Brown taught me how to make bread, and how to shape bread--they started my college years off on an incredibly good foot)--culminating with Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, one of the all time best cookbooks ever. This book is not great--it is a book about how people eat when they eat and cook for themselves when they are alone--it is really a book of musings about people have told her husband over the years, followed by her own thoughts, and then some very fun drawings by her husband to illustrate various points throughout the book. There are 2-3 dozen recipes from people's alone dining, none of which seem truly fabulous--but in fact, n the two days since I started the book, I have talked
about it a half dozen times and thought about it twice as often.