{"product_id":"serves-one-plus-whoever-knocks-jeffrey-rittenhouse-9798182806923","title":"Serves One, Plus Whoever Knocks: A Pickled Egg Cookbook for Cooking for One or Two (The Pickled Egg)","description":"Most cookbooks serve six.\u003cp\u003eShe does not have six.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe has herself, a garden that produces more zucchini than any reasonable person requires, a neighbor across the street who has never once waved first, and a cardinal named Gerald who takes no interest in any of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eServes One, Plus Whoever Knocks\u003c\/strong\u003e is sixty-five recipes from the kitchen of the woman everybody calls the Pickled Egg. She cooks for herself most nights. She sets the second place anyway. And she has opinions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat is in it\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSoup that does not require a recipe (here is the recipe)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOatmeal raisin cookies for a neighbor whose mailbox you did not hit\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLemon bars with more zest than her husband liked, which is the entire point\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA roast chicken that is really four days of dinner, and a plan for all four\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA tomato sandwich, and she is serious about this\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGreen beans cooked considerably longer than you have been told\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePickled eggs, last, with a headnote that explains nothing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhy it is not like the other cookbooks on the shelf\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe portions are for one or two. Not six, not eight, not a family of four. If you live alone, or cook for two, or have watched a household shrink and discovered that the recipes did not come down with you, this book was written from inside that exact problem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe food is real food. Vegetables because the garden produced them. Butter because it is butter. Made from scratch, because she has the time and she likes the time. There are no calorie counts anywhere in this book and there is no chapter about eating better.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd every recipe that can be stretched for somebody who has turned up comes with a note telling you how. People turn up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFive running notes, one or two to a recipe\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIf Somebody Knocks\u003c\/strong\u003e, for stretching it to two\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIf It Goes Wrong\u003c\/strong\u003e, because things do, and there is always a fix\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eKeeps\u003c\/strong\u003e, said plainly\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eRabbit Tax\u003c\/strong\u003e, concerning a rabbit named Rosie and what she has taken\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWhat Husband Thought\u003c\/strong\u003e, one line of dissent from a man who is not here\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eArranged by season, spring to spring, the way a year and a garden actually go.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA companion to the novel The Pickled Egg: Life Is Good (Even When It Isn't), though you do not need to have read it. You do not need to have met her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYou will have by page four.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeffrey Rittenhouse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798182806923\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeffrey Rittenhouse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/22\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 118\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.37lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d","brand":"Jeffrey Rittenhouse","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50780307521791,"sku":"9798182806923","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/serves-one-plus-whoever-knocks-jeffrey-rittenhouse-9798182806923","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}