Deborah Madison is the author of nine cookbooks and countless
articles on food, cooking, and farming. Currently she blogs for
Gourmet and Culinate.
He is the creator of Pat's Downtown Club, featured on CBS Sunday
Morning. He has received numerous awards and fellowships for his
painting. He works out of his studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
As Deborah and Patrick reveal in every word and image of their
delightfully personal narrative, you're never alone when you eat
because food in itself is company - as intimate and personal as the
individuals preparing and consuming it. Never has the world of food
been more enjoyably presented, in drawings as spontaneous as the
recipes are practical, from 'Mashed Potato Soup' to 'Polenta
Smothered with Greens.' As this collection of mini short-stories
proves, how we eat alone, no matter our gender, age or background,
defines us not only to others but to ourselves. All these voices
confessing to what they do when no one else is about form a humane
collective of daily life, wrapped in 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"
(4/30/2009 12:00:00 AM)
Eating is at the same time the most social of activities and the
most intimate. We present our social side when we eat with others,
but we reveal our most private selves when we dine alone. While
almost all cookbooks focus social side of eating with others, leave
it to Deborah Madison and her artist husband Pat McFarlin to probe
the fascinating inner world of eating alone. --Russ Parsons "Los
Angeles Times" (4/30/2009 12:00:00 AM)
I am hooked on this book. It confirms once again that we humans are
endlessly confounding and entertaining creatures. Deborah and her
husband, artist Patrick McFarlin, blow the covers of food pros in
revealing what they eat when no one's around. Then they move on to
friends and acquaintances. You'll smile knowingly, muse a lot,
maybe blush, get very hungry and probably end up in the kitchen,
enjoying every bite of eating alone. This is another keeper from
Deborah Madison. --Lynne Rossetto Kasper "The Splendid Table"
(4/30/2009 12:00:00 AM)
Just when you thought there was nothing conceivably new to write
about food, Deborah 'Greens' Madison and her artist partner,
Patrick McFarlin have devised a truly intimate, startling, funny,
and genuinely subversive book. What We Eat When We Eat Alone is
like peeping through a one-way mirror into the life of others. Not
only what we eat, but how we eat it (spreading newsprint over one's
chest to eat in bed) fills this entertaining book with enough fun
and good ideas to keep you turning page after page. Even though the
chapter 'Men and Their Meat' is not what you think it might be, you
will be missing a rare treat if you don't buy and read this book.
If there's a second edition I'll offer my singular treatment of
half an avocado as a favorite snack. --Peter Coyote "Actor /Author
of Sleeping Where I Fall" (4/30/2009 12:00:00 AM)
The most charming food related book of the season --Paul Levy
"Denver Post" (4/29/2009 12:00:00 AM)
This is a truly unique book written by two professionals, but only
by trial and error will we ever know if the recipes (should you
care to try them) live up to the quality of the text and the genius
of the sketches. We can be deeply thankful, however that no
technical assemblage is offered for moose stew. --Patrick Oliphant
"Card-carrying vegetarian in Sata Fe, NM" (4/30/2009 12:00:00
AM)
What a brilliant idea. I wish I'd thought of it myself - but then
it wouldn't have had Patrick McFarlin's illustrations, and be the
gorgeous book it is. --Paul Levy "Writer, journalist, broadcaster,
and author of Out to Lunch and The Official Foodie Handbook"
(4/30/2009 12:00:00 AM)
What a fun book! It is totally 100% compelling and I LOVE the
illustrations. I have always ranted on about how much I hate eating
alone, and how, in fact, I consider eating alone a greater hazard
than drinking alone. Then along comes this book which suddenly
makes cancelling my dinner date tonight in favor of a fried egg on
asparagus in an armchair seems like the most desirable thing on
earth! (Not least of all because it means that while I eat, I can
keep reading.) --Laura Calder "Television Host and Food Writer"
(4/30/2009 12:00:00 AM)
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