Try One Bite: Saving My Life, One Restaurant at a Time
Mar 2027 · Sold by Simon and Schuster
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“Karen Stabiner’s upcoming memoir is sure to be delectable.”—People
For fans of Tamar Adler and Ruth Reichl, a poignant yet comic tale of how one woman dodged a late-life crisis, discovered her best self, and fell back in love with her childhood sweetheart: restaurants.
Karen Stabiner has found community—and joy—in restaurants since she was six years old. So when one big lie dismantled her life—ended a thirty-year marriage, cost her the house where her daughter grew up, and sent her from Los Angeles to New York and back again in pursuit of work—she did the only thing she could think of to get herself through it: She went out to dinner. With a guy she’d known for forty years; with family and friends; by herself. Again and again and again.
Dinner dates with that old friend promised a happy ending, but life is not a rom-com. This story is about what really happens when we have to rebuild our lives from the ground up—what almost was, what never will be, the surprises we can create for ourselves. It’s about how to retool our lives rather than disappear. Like they say: A woman’s work is never done.
Fiery, funny, and full of flavor, Try One Bite is one determined woman’s account of pushing back so she doesn’t get pushed aside—and of discovering herself in the process.
For fans of Tamar Adler and Ruth Reichl, a poignant yet comic tale of how one woman dodged a late-life crisis, discovered her best self, and fell back in love with her childhood sweetheart: restaurants.
Karen Stabiner has found community—and joy—in restaurants since she was six years old. So when one big lie dismantled her life—ended a thirty-year marriage, cost her the house where her daughter grew up, and sent her from Los Angeles to New York and back again in pursuit of work—she did the only thing she could think of to get herself through it: She went out to dinner. With a guy she’d known for forty years; with family and friends; by herself. Again and again and again.
Dinner dates with that old friend promised a happy ending, but life is not a rom-com. This story is about what really happens when we have to rebuild our lives from the ground up—what almost was, what never will be, the surprises we can create for ourselves. It’s about how to retool our lives rather than disappear. Like they say: A woman’s work is never done.
Fiery, funny, and full of flavor, Try One Bite is one determined woman’s account of pushing back so she doesn’t get pushed aside—and of discovering herself in the process.
“Karen Stabiner’s upcoming memoir is sure to be delectable.”—People
For fans of Tamar Adler and Ruth Reichl, a poignant yet comic tale of how one woman dodged a late-life crisis, discovered her best self, and fell back in love with her childhood sweetheart: restaurants.
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About the author
Karen Stabiner is a journalist whose essays have appeared in The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times. She is the author of eleven books, including Generation Chef, To Dance with the Devil: The New War on Breast Cancer (a New York Times Notable Book), and My Girl: Adventures with a Teen in Training. She has also written two cookbooks and two novels. Her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Eater LA, Columbia Journalism Review, The New Yorker, Gourmet (a James Beard Award finalist), Saveur, Vogue, and Mother Jones. She lives in Santa Monica, CA.
Karen Stabiner is a journalist whose essays have appeared in The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times. She is the author of eleven books, including Generation Chef, To Dance with the Devil: The New War on Breast Cancer (a New York Times Notable Book), and My Girl: Adventure...
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