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Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant Alone Kitchen Eggplant IN THE WITH AN CONFESSIONS OF COOKING FOR ONE AND DINING ALONE EDITED BY Jenni Ferrari-Adler RIVERHEAD BOOKS a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. NEW YORK 2007 RIVERHEAD BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA • Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario M4P 2Y3, Canada (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) • Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England • Penguin Ireland, 25 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd) • Penguin Group (Australia), 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd) • Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi–110 017, India • Penguin Group (NZ), 67 Apollo Drive, Rosedale, North Shore 0745, Auckland, New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd) • Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Copyright © 2007 by Jenni Ferrari-Adler All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without permission. Please do not participate in or encourage piracy of copyrighted materials in violation of the author’s rights. Published simultaneously in Canada An extension of this copyright page appears at the end of this book. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ferrari-Adler, Jenni. Alone in the kitchen with an eggplant: confessions of cooking for one and dining alone / edited by Jenni Ferrari-Adler. p. cm. ISBN: 978-1-1012-1762-7 1. Cookery for one. I. Ferrari-Adler, Jenni. II. Title. TX652.F467 2007 2007001593 641.5'61—dc22 The recipes contained in this book are to be followed exactly as written. The publisher is not responsible for your specific health or allergy needs that may require medical supervision. The publisher is not responsible for any adverse reactions to the recipes contained in this book. While the author has made every effort to provide accurate telephone numbers and Internet addresses at the time of publication, neither the publisher nor the author assumes any responsibility for errors, or for changes that occur after publication. Further, the publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for author or third-party websites or their content. For Jofie Contents Introduction Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant LAURIE COLWIN Dinner for One, Please, James ANN PATCHETT Beans and Me JEREMY JACKSON Single Cuisine AMANDA HESSER Asparagus Superhero PHOEBE NOBLES Thanks, but No Thanks COURTNEY ELDRIDGE The Legend of the Salsa Rosa BEN KARLIN Eating Alone MARCELLA HAZAN Making Soup in Buffalo BEVERLY LOWRY Que Será Sarito: An (Almost) Foolproof Plan to Never Ever Eat Alone Again STEVE ALMOND The Year of Spaghetti HARUKI MURAKAMI Out to Lunch COLIN HARRISON Dining Alone MARY CANTWELL A Is for Dining Alone M. F. K. FISHER Eggs Over Uneasy JONATHAN AMES Protective Measures JAMI ATTENBERG Table for One ERIN ERGENBRIGHT Wild Chili DAN CHAON White-on-White Lunch for When No One Is Looking ANNELI RUFUS Luxury HOLLY HUGHES My Favorite Meal for One PAULA WOLFERT The Lonely Palate LAURA CALDER How to Cook in a New York Apartment LAURA DAVE Potatoes and Love: Some Reflections NORA EPHRON Instant Noodles RATTAWUT LAPCHAROENSAP Food Nomad ROSA JURJEVICS Contributors Permissions Acknowledgments Acknowledgments It is the privilege of loneliness; in privacy one may do as one chooses. — VIRGINIA WOOLF, Mrs. Dalloway Dinner alone is one of life’s pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest. People lie when you ask them what they eat when they are alone. A salad, they tell you. But when you persist, they confess to peanut butter and bacon sandwiches deep fried and eaten with hot sauce, or spaghetti with butter and grape jam. — LAURIE COLWIN, “Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant,” Home Cooking Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant
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