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,” i.e. anything we’re talking about around the dinner table. 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 the Chocolate Chip Cookies that Blew My Mind, 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 15 years. 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
