My latest essay at Bookslut is up: On Eating Alone.
Go take a look if you’ve got a minute!
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I'm a writer and editor based in Livingston, Montana. I moved to Livingston from the San Francisco Bay area in 2002 in search of affordable housing and a small community with a vibrant arts community. I found both. LivingSmall details my experience buying and renovating a house, building a garden, becoming a part of this community. It also chronicles my efforts to rebuild my life after the sudden death of my younger brother, and closest companion, Patrick in a car wreck.
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Great review. Makes me want to reread MFK Fisher.
I wanted to like Deborah Madison’s book but I was offended by the way eating alone was viewed as either indulgent, involuntary and just plain strange. I grew up in a fish sticks, mac & cheese, iceberg lettuce kind of home, and learned to cook in my thirties, from books. It’s taken me a decade to realize most recipes are too big for a childless couple with no family nearby – it’s not just singles that find grocery stores & recipes oversized. I’m going to stretch Judith Jones’s book to help me cook better for my husband and I!
The Jones is a delight — really one of my favorite books of the year. And I SO wanted to like the Madison more, but yeah, the whole conceit that being alone must be a sentence of some sort … well, it was disappointing.