title: How to Cook Like a Man: A Memoir of Cookbook Obsession
author:  Daniel Duane 
description: Duanes title is nicely tongue-in-cheek. Facing fatherhood, the climber (El Capitan, 2000) and surfer (Caught Inside, 1996) decides that his contribution to the family will be as cookmake that chef. Beginning with Alice Waters Chez Panisse Vegetables (1996), he obsessively makes every recipe in that cookbook before moving on to other books and other chefs, transforming himself from a guy who rotates two different dinner recipes (Even Nights Stir Fry and Odd Nights Pasta) to someone who makes his own veal stock. Unable to do anything halfway, he lays waste to kitchens, keeps hungry guests waiting, and even sickens his wife and friends by serving a surfeit of truffles. Eventually, of course, he learns the value of preparing simple food that his family can actually enjoy. Though this is structurally somewhat unevenDuanes coming epiphany is so apparent that the second half seems a foregone conclusionDuane is an intelligent and highly engaging writer, and his entertaining insights into male foodie culture will resonate strongly with both men who cook and the women who put up with them. --Keir Graff
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  H OW TO COOK  L IK E A MAN
  A MEMOIR  OF COOK BOOK  OBS ES S ION
  D ANIEL  D UANE
  
  MENU
  Title Page
  Dedication
  Epigraph
  Preface: A Man’s Place Is in the Kitchen
  Part One: The Burrito Years
  1. You Are the Way You Eat
  2. On the Cookbook as Scripture
  Part Two: The Alice Years
  3. Recipes Are for Idiots Like Me
  4 . We All Need Something to Believe In
  5. What French Women Can Teach U s
  6. The Happy Hunting Ground
  7. On the Role of the Menu in Human Affairs
  Part Three: What Is Cooking For?
  8. The Meat Period in Every Man’s Life
  9. My Kung Fu Is Not Strong
  10. On Cooking and Carpentry
  11. Gluttony as Heroism
  12. Recipes Are for Idiots Like Me, Take Two
  13. What We Talk About When We Talk About Our Last Supper
  Acknowledgments
  Selected Reading
  A Note on the Author
  By the Same Author
  Copyright
  
  For Liz, Hannah, and Audrey
  
  The stove, the bins, the cupboards, I had learned forever,
  make
  an inviolable throne room. From them I ruled; temporarily I
  controlled. I felt powerful, and I loved that fee