Jenni Ferrari-Adler, Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant : Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone

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Never be daunted in public’ was an early Hemingway phrase that had more than once bolstered me in my timid twenties. I changed it resolutely to ‘Never be daunted in private’.- M.F.K. Fisher “A Is for Dining Alone