What we eat when we eat alone About the recipes Eating in bed The Gestalt of eating : men and women at the table Foods for me and me alone Getting the body fed with rough and ready foods Saved by sardines, rescued by pasta Tiny on the couch Men and their meat "How to eat alone" : poem by Daniel Halpern Alone at last Alone every day "Spy girls" : poem by Jeannine Hall Gailey What every boy and girl should learn to cook before they're men and women Meals with a motive Breakfast with the saints Our thanks