Dinner: A Love Story is a newsletter, website, and book series devoted to the family meal, however you define “family” and however you define “meal.”
If you visit Dinner: A Love Story or subscribe to my newsletter, you’ll get a zillion dinner ideas, from weeknight, slap-it-together mainstays to whatever 59-ingredient stew Ottolenghi has inspired me to try — but you’ll also get book, podcast, news, long reads, and travel recs because we talk about that stuff at the dinner table a lot. (See how I did that?)
About the Recipes
I write about real recipes, made in a real kitchen, for real people, specifically my two teenage daughters, and husband, Andy, a book editor. None of the dishes you see here are plated by a team of food stylists or dreamed up in a test kitchen because a focus group determined that, say, turmeric was trending.
Take my crispy fish sandwich up there. How good does that look? It’s topped with a dilly, spicy, rice-wine-vinegary slaw, and when it’s on the dinner menu, I look forward to it all day. I look forward to making it, and I look forward to telling everyone about it. Sometimes I go to bed still thinking about it. I feel the same way about our favorite Mexican takeout or the prepared lasagna from the old-school Italian specialty shop, or a big bowl of buttered egg noodles when it’s just me standing at the counter by myself, savoring quality alone time with my twitter feed. I felt this way about dinner even when my kids were little, and I had to deconstruct the salmon salad into a thousand separate piles of ingredients so nothing touched. Finishing the day with dinner feels like a little gift I’m giving myself every single day.
And that’s all I hope to accomplish on Dinner: A Love Story: To help you feel this way about dinner, too. To inspire you to cook something, be intentional about it, and, when you can, share it with people you care about.
Got your book at the library and love it! My husband drinks scotch manhattans, but tonight, I’m trying the bourbon one of Andy’s–it’s a drizzly, cool day here in Nebraska.
Got your book at the library and love it! My husband drinks scotch manhattans, but tonight, I’m trying the bourbon one of Andy’s–it’s a drizzly, cool day here in Nebraska.
I loved your book: Dinner A Love Story and I visited your blog tonight to take my mind off things. Thank you for your work.