You Are What You Eat...Alone
What we choose to eat when no one else is around can range from simple pleasures to the truly bizarre
The foods that we share, the meals that bind us together, have a code that we all implicitly understand. We know that the starter precedes the main course, followed by the dessert. We know that a wedding demands a cake-shaped centrepiece - whether crafted from dried fruit, butter and sugar, a heap of profiteroles, or layers of jellies. We know that a bowl of chicken soup, prepared for us when we are ill, is offered with a hope for better health.
But beyond these meals lies a secret realm of food, a universe of individual, often bizarre dishes, eaten by the light of the fridge, or tucked up in bed, or pacing back and forth across the kitchen. These are the meals that we eat when no one else is watching - meals that shrug off all convention and compromise. Now, in a new book by Deborah Madison and Patrick McFarlin, What We Eat When We Eat Alone, these secret, often sensationally strange meals, are made public.
Read more: What we choose to eat when there's no one around, from The Guardian
What do you guys love eating alone? I love eating sliced bread dipped soaked in cold Coke, but for diet reasons I have stopped doing this. I think this isn't the most shocking answer out there. Bagoong with chewy mint candies? ANYONE? The fried spaghetti with cheese sounds good, though.