Kasey Jueds's Reviews > The Art of Eating In: How I Learned to Stop Spending and Love the Stove

This is one of those blogs-become-books about a year (in this case, I think it was actually two years) of doing something wacky/creative/different. In this case, the author, who lives in NYC, decides not to eat out, at all, for an extended period of time; she explores cooking and baking, dumpster-diving for food, foraging in city parks, and all sorts of sustainability issues (one chapter about the waste that goes along with take-out food was particularly fascinating). I did enjoy it, though I think the parts that are truly about food and eating work much much better than the sections about the author's personal life, which read more like glorified journal entries. Some excellent-sounding recipes, too, and I love books that mix recipes with prose!