Dinner At Your Door: Tips and Recipes for Starting a Neighborhood Cooking Co-op

by Alex Davis, Andy Remeis, Diana Ellis

We love to cook. But every night? No way! On the other hand, we don't want to eat out or have frozen pizza. On the nights we don't cook, we want something delicious-a balanced meal with quality ingredients. Come to think of it, what we really want are home-cooked meals made by somebody else and delivered!

Welcome to co-op cooking, possibly the best idea since Pyrex with a lid. With the plan set up by Dinner at the Door, you cook one fabulous dinner a week and have two or three equally sensational meals delivered to your door, hot and ready to eat. If you love to cook but the pressure of doing it every night gets you down, a dinner co-op is for you. Instead of slamming together three or four 30-minute dinners a week, you can take your time crafting one superb weeknight meal and enjoy receiving the other meals automatically.

Genres: Cookbooks

176 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2008

About the author

An advertising copywriter, Davis’ client work has appeared in Bon Appétit, People, BusinessWeek, and Sunset. Seeking to balance work, family life, and a love for great food, Davis joined a neighborhood dinner co-op in 2003. She soon discovered that dinner co-ops are a life-changing practice that lets people spend less time in the kitchen, while making the time they do spend preparing meals really exciting. Davis lives in the Northwest US, where she enjoys movies, mountain biking, book club, and throwing wild class parties at the local elementary school.

Reviews

[Alex]

Our hope in creating this book was to promote the spread of neighborhood dinner co-ops, a practice that has simplified our lives and allowed us to rediscover the joy of making a spectacular meal--by letting us cook less frequently during the week.

If you and your friends launch your own cooking co-op, we'd love to hear from you. And we invite you to add yourselves to the national map we're building at www.dinnerco-ops.com

[Laura Stiller]

This has to be one of my favorite cookbooks ever. I LOVE the concept of co-op cooking. We're trying it out with friends and even on the first night it was AWESOME. I didn't stress at all - I just waited for my doorbell to ring and within minutes we were sitting down to dinner!

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[Meadow]

Great ideas, but I just don't think it would work for me.