The Art of Eating In How I Learned to Stop Spending and Love the Stove

"Best Cookbooks of 2010" - SeriousEats.com "Cathy is passionate about sustainable eating and living, and the fact that in writing about her renouncement of eating out in New York, she was also able to paint a vivid portrait of the many innovative movers and shakers in the food scene here, is very telling. There is much more to eating in this, the greatest restaurant city in the world, than restaurants." -Julie Powell, author of "Julie and Julia" "In total, this book is really one woman's coming of age novel, with recipes, a sort of "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Cook."" -Robert Sietsema, restaurant critic for "The Village Voice" "The Art of Eating In" (hardcover) inspired the Huffington Post's "Week Of Eating In" and earned author Cathy Erway a "Ladies We Love" distinction from "Ladies Home Journal" "The Top 10 Eccentric Brooklyn Food Personalities of 2010" -Eater.com "Deserves a toast." -"USA Today" "Another good book born from a blog [...] It is, as food critic Robert Sietsema writes in his introduction, a 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Cook, ' an insight into Brooklyn's youth culture. And it looks -- breakups, tiny kitchens and all -- like fun." -"Los Angeles Times" "Those who loved Food, Inc. will delight in Brooklyn blogger Cathy Erway's new book "The Art of Eating In"-a yearlong account of getting familiar with her stove." -"Daily Candy" "Erway's journey is one of a young artist finding herself, as a cook, as a member of several interesting communities, as a family member, and as a writer." -"Bookslut.com" "Erway is up for just about any food-related adventure [...] And the recipes will have readers racing to their stoves." -"Publishers Weekly" "Most remarkable is not the fact that she made it that long without eating out [...] Rather, it's how appealing and simple the author makes it seem. [...] the author gleefully mixes and sautTs through l