Dining Alone : Stories from the table for one.
Santich, Barbara.
Dining Alone : Stories from the table for one. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (176 pages)
Dining Alone -- About the editor -- Awards -- Title page -- Imprint -- Contents page 1 -- Contents page 2 -- Preface -- Allard, alone -- Alone -- A table alone -- A recipe for nourishment -- Table for one -- Alone, together -- Greg -- The lights in Paris -- An attentive waiter -- Under the sea -- Minestra -- A date with destiny -- Cutting ties -- From Mykonos to Meteora -- The second last supper -- A comfortable place -- A late lunch -- Sydney 1993: Getting over dining alone -- Don't dine alone - take an iPad to dinner -- The Japanese, the chef, the old lady and the fish -- I just can't dine alone anymore -- Table for six -- A waiter's intrigue -- One is a lonely number -- Grandmother Chen -- Taking flight -- The unmarried chapter -- Solitude -- Dining alone with Madame Taittinger -- Dinner for two -- Velvet -- The harvest fog -- Dining alone, annually -- Chardonnay or Nebbiolo? -- That cherry pie -- Last meal -- The only pub in town -- Bitter -- Contributors -- Camellia Aebischer -- Jennifer Baily -- Danya Bilinsky -- Elizabeth Black -- Rita Cattoni -- Tibbie Chiu -- Nathalie Craig -- Lisa Dempster -- Wendy Downes -- Marianne Duluk -- Alyssa Fletcher -- Kay Gibbons -- David Gilligan -- Cassie Harrex -- Julia Jenkins -- Ross Karavis -- Suzanne Le Page Langlois -- Lisa Le Faucheur -- La Vergne Lehmann -- Lucinda Moody -- Vikki Moore -- Kate Napper -- Josie Palombo -- Diana Parkyn -- Caroline Pearce -- Glennise Pinili -- Banjo Harris Plane -- Kate Punshon -- Carli Ratcliff -- Karen Reyment -- Eloise Riggs -- Alister Robertson -- Marianne Robins -- Mandy Rowe -- Catherine Shepherd -- Carly Slater -- Natasha Stewart -- Roz Taylor -- Wakefield Press -- Back cover.
In these short stories the table is a scene of revenge and nostalgic memories, self-realisation and self-indulgence, separations and new beginnings. In turn warm and witty, acerbic and compassionate, sad and joyful, the stories in "Dining Alone" demonstrate the rich possibilities that food brings to fiction.
9781743052693
Dinners and dining--Fiction.
Electronic books.
PS3553.O633
A823.01
Dining Alone : Stories from the table for one. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (176 pages)
Dining Alone -- About the editor -- Awards -- Title page -- Imprint -- Contents page 1 -- Contents page 2 -- Preface -- Allard, alone -- Alone -- A table alone -- A recipe for nourishment -- Table for one -- Alone, together -- Greg -- The lights in Paris -- An attentive waiter -- Under the sea -- Minestra -- A date with destiny -- Cutting ties -- From Mykonos to Meteora -- The second last supper -- A comfortable place -- A late lunch -- Sydney 1993: Getting over dining alone -- Don't dine alone - take an iPad to dinner -- The Japanese, the chef, the old lady and the fish -- I just can't dine alone anymore -- Table for six -- A waiter's intrigue -- One is a lonely number -- Grandmother Chen -- Taking flight -- The unmarried chapter -- Solitude -- Dining alone with Madame Taittinger -- Dinner for two -- Velvet -- The harvest fog -- Dining alone, annually -- Chardonnay or Nebbiolo? -- That cherry pie -- Last meal -- The only pub in town -- Bitter -- Contributors -- Camellia Aebischer -- Jennifer Baily -- Danya Bilinsky -- Elizabeth Black -- Rita Cattoni -- Tibbie Chiu -- Nathalie Craig -- Lisa Dempster -- Wendy Downes -- Marianne Duluk -- Alyssa Fletcher -- Kay Gibbons -- David Gilligan -- Cassie Harrex -- Julia Jenkins -- Ross Karavis -- Suzanne Le Page Langlois -- Lisa Le Faucheur -- La Vergne Lehmann -- Lucinda Moody -- Vikki Moore -- Kate Napper -- Josie Palombo -- Diana Parkyn -- Caroline Pearce -- Glennise Pinili -- Banjo Harris Plane -- Kate Punshon -- Carli Ratcliff -- Karen Reyment -- Eloise Riggs -- Alister Robertson -- Marianne Robins -- Mandy Rowe -- Catherine Shepherd -- Carly Slater -- Natasha Stewart -- Roz Taylor -- Wakefield Press -- Back cover.
In these short stories the table is a scene of revenge and nostalgic memories, self-realisation and self-indulgence, separations and new beginnings. In turn warm and witty, acerbic and compassionate, sad and joyful, the stories in "Dining Alone" demonstrate the rich possibilities that food brings to fiction.
9781743052693
Dinners and dining--Fiction.
Electronic books.
PS3553.O633
A823.01