Not Eating Out in New York

New York City is one of the toughest towns to eat at home—there is so much variety!

But Cathy Erway managed to do it and live to blog about it!

She’s got lots of great tips and tricks for cooking for yourself when you’re single.  Check out her website, Not Eating Out In New York.

Read a little Excerpt from Cathy’s website:

I like to cook. I like to learn about new dishes and how they’re made, and try to cook them. I don’t always do a good job of it, and I haven’t had any formal culinary training.

From September 2006-September 2008, I went AWOL from eating restaurant, take-out, or street stand food throughout the five boroughs of New York City. While becoming an office brown-bag (actually, reusable tote) queen and eating pretty much only food prepared by myself, I tried to explore other avenues of “not eating out” — diving into dumpsters, foraging for edible weeds, cooking for communal dinners and supper clubs, and throwing or participating in amateur cook-offs and events. I wrote a book about this experience, called The Art of Eating In: How I Learned to Stop Spending and Love the Stove.