TY - BOOK AU - Santich,Barbara TI - Dining Alone: Stories from the table for one SN - 9781743052693 AV - PS3553.O633 U1 - A823.01 PY - 2013/// CY - Mile End PB - Wakefield Press KW - Dinners and dining--Fiction KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4604744 ER -