My son Eric gave me this web site for Christmas and by gosh, I’m going to learn how to use it.
I’m an architect turned bookseller turned avid home cook, living in San Francisco.
About 15 years ago I accepted an architectural position in Jerusalem and found myself living alone for the first time in my life. Obliged to shop and cook for myself, I brought along a few tried and true recipes from home and although I love cookbooks and own over 100 by now, I took along only two: James Beard’s Theory and Practice of Good Cooking and the Frugal Gourmet’s Three Ancient Cuisines.
Since most recipes are for four or six, I learned creative use of leftovers. Over time, I built up a repertoire of recipes, collected in a two ring Israeli binder, and called it eats4one. Upon returning home to the Boston area, I kept cooking for my wife and me and collecting recipes for one or two people, with emphasis on ease of preparation and tasting good. In 1999, I finally got around to publishing eats4one and distributed it to friends and family, in my mind, a collection of recipes for good food that is so essential that one would want to cook them for oneself, alone, without anyone to impress.
So that’s what I think this web site is about. Cook well, eat well often, don’t get bored, share my ideas and learn from ideas that you share with me.
As I work with this new fangled blog thing, I may change my mind and go off in another direction, but as an architect colleague once said, “You’ve got to draw it before you can change it.”
Getting started is a good thing.
–Marcus Rector 1.06
March 4, 2006
To: Marc Rector
From: Dennis Rieske
I loved your web page. I will send you a full E-mail to your comcast.net address but I just wanted you to know that I finished our web page for our firm, developmentalre.com. Check it out. drieske@att.net
comment at 04. March 2006
Marcus,
I’m thinking about writing a story about how farmers are going online and starting a literary movement of sorts. The Ladybug Letter is a great example. I’m a big Michael Pollan fan and his work inspired this. Since you posted a comment on the Ladybug site, I’d love to ask you why you like these kinds of sites.
Please call me, or email me at your earliest convenience.
Roger
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comment at 09. July 2007
Dear Marcus, I don´t know how it took me so long to find your website, but I am delighted to have stumbled upon it. I´m cooking for one and started a blog recently about cooking for one:
http://comosolo.wordpress.com/
I will definitely be trying out some of your recipes!
D.
comment at 28. April 2010