What is Dinner: A Love Story?
Dinner: A Love Story is a newsletter, website, and book series devoted to the family meal, however you define “family” and however you define “meal.”
What to Expect
If you are free subscriber, you’ll receive one post a week, my Three Things dispatch, which is a trio of reading and eating recs I’m excited about — recipes, books, travel, kitchen discoveries, and “surprise-and-delights.” You’ll have access to four weeks of my archived content.
Paying subscribers get so much more, including but not limited to:
⭐️ Meal plans with shopping lists (sometimes for a week of dinners, sometimes for a classic brunch, sometimes for a night of easy entertaining)
⭐️ Bonus recipes, like my Big Giant Reset Dinner Salad, Birthday Cakes Through the Years, the Best Batched Cocktails, Green Enchiladas with Tomatillo Sauce, a veg take on Shepherd’s Pie.
⭐️ Access to The Four-Week Weekday Vegetarian Challenge (including weekly mean plans and shopping lists)
⭐️Travel itineraries for cities all over the world including London, Lisbon, New York, Vermont, Maine, Sicily, Oxford, Kiawah Island, South Carolina
⭐️ Personal essays, like my pros and cons of moving to the city after two decades in the suburbs
⭐️ Access to the entire archive, which dates back to 2021, and includes hundreds of recipes.
And of course, you’ll also be supporting Dinner: A Love Story as it heads into the next decade — and that means a lot. Thank you so much for considering!
Who am I?
I’m Jenny Rosenstrach, a New-York-based food writer and New York Times bestselling cookbook author, and I’ve written Dinner: A Love Story for over a decade. My most recent book series, The Weekday Vegetarians and The Weekday Vegetarians: Get Simple are about a vow we made in my house five years ago that goes like this: Eat less meat, sort of. In other words, we only eat our roast chickens and pork chops on the weekend, fueling ourselves with mostly plant-based meals from Monday to Friday.
If you want to go down the Dinner A Love Story rabbit hole, you can also head over to NPR, The New York Times, New York, The Wall Street Journal, Salon, Food 52, Real Simple or Bon Appétit, where I was a columnist for seven years, or to the beloved, mega-popular Cup of Jo, where I write about a lot of things — but mostly food. You can of course find me on Instagram.
Dinner: A little gift you can give yourself every single day
I write about real recipes, made in a real kitchen, for real people, specifically my two college-age daughters (when they’re home), and husband, Andy, a book editor. None of the dishes you see here are plated by a team of food stylists or dreamed up in a test kitchen because a focus group determined that, say, turmeric was trending.
Take my crispy fish sandwich up there. How good does that look? It’s topped with a dilly, spicy, rice-wine-vinegary slaw, and when it’s on the dinner menu, I look forward to it all day. I look forward to making it, and I look forward to telling everyone about it. Sometimes I go to bed still thinking about it. I feel the same way about our favorite Mexican takeout or the prepared lasagna from the old-school Italian specialty shop, or a big bowl of buttered egg noodles when it’s just me standing at the counter by myself, savoring quality alone time with my instagram feed. I felt this way about dinner even when my kids were little, and I had to deconstruct the salmon salad into a thousand separate piles of ingredients so nothing touched. Finishing the day with dinner feels like a little gift I’m giving myself every single day.
And that’s all I hope to accomplish on Dinner: A Love Story: To help you feel this way about dinner, too. To inspire you to cook something, be intentional about it, and, when you can, share it with people you care about.
It’s a love story waiting to happen.
Contact
Questions? Email me: jenny@dinneralovestory.com
