But First, Dinner

Every day, every one of us attempts to answer the question: 'what shall I have for dinner?'

Choosing what you want to eat means something. Working out what to eat for dinner is the scaffolding of everyday life; it's the framework that holds everything together, that has the power to turn bad days around and make good days even better. That daily decision contains multitudes: it contains the power to help us make sense of things, to bring the ingredients of our day, the fragments of our lives, together, and to ground us.

This is a book for people who spend most of their day thinking about what to have for dinner. It's for people who take comfort in kitchens and love to communicate big feelings through food. It's for the list makers of the world, the ritual seekers: the people who know that dinner is never just dinner.