The art of Eating in : : how I Learned to Stop Spending and Love the Stove

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Introduction: Eating out in New York -- The start of my restaurant fast -- Breaking into bread -- Mise en place -- Chilaquiles and meringues: cooking quirks and characteristics -- Getting dirty: trash diving, freegans, and frugalistas -- From the land: urban foraging 101 -- Not ordering in: less haste, less waste -- Giving thanks: communal feasting with friends and family -- Going solo -- New lows: the search for the perfect date meal -- Underground eateries: supper clubs and the exclusive SOS -- Hanging over in New York: the Mexican menudo incident -- Cooking up a storm: competitive cooking and collaborations -- The end of an era -- The opposite-week experiment -- Epilogue.
In the city where dining is a sport, a gourmand swears off restaurants (even takeout) for two years, rediscovering the economical, gastronomical joy of home cooking. Includes thirty original recipes.

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Good Transition from Blog to Book submitted by Sara W on June 27, 2011, 9:02pm Cathy Erway loves food. Which is good, because she lives in New York City, which is paved with excellent restaurants. But after one too many lousy, expensive midtown lunches and unsatisfying, greasy late night snacks, Cathy decided to give up restaurants. This book is a chronicle of how she spent two years of her New York life trying new recipes, competing in chili cook-offs, packing picnic lunches and making do, even when her apartment has no cooking gas because the previous resident never turned on the stove.

I enjoyed the way Cathy embraced the challenge of cooking every meal and I envied her energy. She rarely takes the easy way out and she approaches even the most average of meals with creativity. She always seemed practical and relatable, even when she's in the midst of chopping a mountain of onions for a community dinner party. More than anything, I appreciated the way a story of eating in became a story of how cooking and eating food can be a beautifully social experience.