You Gotta Eat: Real-Life Strategies for Feeding Yourself When Cooking Feels Impossible

Everyone needs to eat, but not everyone wants to cook. Eby, a trained chef and food writer/editor for publications ranging from the Philadelphia Inquirer to Food & Wine, understands this. Whether readers are overworked, overstressed, or under the weather physically or mentally, Eby is here to help, with strategies to make getting a meal on the table easier and doable. Divided into chapters like “Open Something” (a can, a container, a bag), “Assemble Something” (a sandwich, a quesadilla), and “Cook Something” (frittatas, stir-fries, casseroles, etc.), the book also sprinkles plenty of invaluable cooking tips throughout, such as how cooking dried pasta in a can of soup can release the delicious starchy powers of the pasta and help thicken the soup as well. Whether she is offering advice on guesstimating measurements or tossing off bons mots like “toasts are the convertibles of sandwiches,” Eby writes with great wit, empathy, and insight.