“The Cassoulet Saved Our Marriage is a delightful collection of essays that help define the importance of food in our lives. This book made me hungry for good meals and good people. I dare you to read this book and not start planning a dinner party.”—Anne Zimmerman, author of An Extravagant Hunger: The Passionate Years of M.F.K. Fisher (Counterpoint, 2012)

“The Cassoulet Saved Our Marriage brings together a talented and diverse group of writers, and through their appealingly wide-ranging essays, each shares stories – emotional, funny, revealing – about their relationship to food and the way food shapes their relationship to the world. These stories aren't just about what we eat, but also about how those choices help us understand who we are.”—Peter Meehan, editor, Lucky Peach

“I loved the appetizers I got to read. I can't wait for the entire meal. This is going to be an entertaining, thought-provoking book.”—A. J. Jacobs, The Year of Living Biblically (Simon and Schuster, 2007)

“The Cassoulet Saved Our Marriage takes dining away from the celebrity aesthete foodies currently infesting America's restaurants and returns it to the family table where it can be celebrated for its delightfully neurotic origins and near-obsessive manifestations.”—Douglas Rushkoff, Get Back in the Box (Collins, 2007)

“The little taste [the editors have] given me here definitely makes me hungry for more.”—Betsy Block, The Dinner Diaries: Raising Whole Wheat Kids in a White Bread World (Algonquin Books, 2008)

“A fantastic collection that is as much about relationships as it is about the food that bonds us. You will never look at your family dinner in the same way again.”—Wylie Dufresne, chef/owner of wd~50 and Alder