Basic Cookbook For Living Alone
Copyright 2010 by Morris Rosenthal
Cooking For One - The Business Of Living Alone
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There's only one good reason to cook for yourself - If you don't eat, you'll get sick. I've been living alone my entire adult life, and I find taking care of myself a bore. But I don't fancy starving or being found incapable of caring for myself, so I feed myself three times a day and go to work every morning. For the last seventeen years, going to work has meant staying home and working at my own business. I've worked as a computer hardware and controls consultant, as a trade author for McGraw-Hill, and set up my own publishing company. These days, all of my income comes from writing, publishing and selling my own books.
It's important for authors to write about subjects they know well and are passionate about. I know as much about living alone as anybody I've ever met, and I'm passionate about self sufficiency in business, so I thought a new website about the business of living alone would make an interesting project. It's not, however, intended to serve as a model for living. In fact, if I write the blog honestly, it may serve as a cautionary tale. I'm not an advocate of living alone, it's simply what I know, a case of self sufficiency carried to the nth degree.
The most quoted Biblical passage (to single men by their sisters) is lo tov lihiyot adam levado - it's not good for a man to live by himself. The man in this case is Adam, but as the only man in the Bible at this point, it's taken to mean all men. I can witness first hand that it's not good for the man - it might be good for the business, in terms of keeping expenses down, but it's hardly a worthwhile trade-off, and even the coldest calculator misses a family with children at tax time.
Hope may not spring eternal but will to live is a stubborn one, so for the 1% or 2% of us slid off the back of the bell curve for social integration, it's important to keep moving forward and try to play a positive role in the world. A sense of humor about yourself is valuable as well. If I couldn't laugh at myself, I'd be crying.