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Who am I, and what can I offer you?

We may be completely different individuals living different lives, but there's a good chance that if you got this far, you and I connect on a basic, daily level.

You and I cook for ourselves. Single, widowed, divorced, or any other category which you identify with, we both need to eat in order to live.

I know how hard it can be for you. I feel your pain.

The kitchen poses challenges, frustrations, and burnt mistakes for the person cooking for one.

You can't get help. You can't find recipes. You don't want to be in the kitchen for hours - nor should you. Born to two artists with kindred souls, I, along with my siblings, genetically inherited a vivid, creative streak that ran through my personality. Running parallel with this artistic flair was a deep current of scientific curiosity. I have always been a naturalist wondering about the inner ticking of the natural world. So there I was oscillating between two seemingly polar opposites.

Seeking Meaning and Finding Myself

Common sense at the time dictated I pursue the more lucrative science end of my passions when the question, "so-what-do-you-want-to-do-when-you-grow-up" become more and more frequent.
I thought the two were incompatible. I worked in science education for over a dozen years, and slowly but surely, I was growing more and more frustrated and exhausted. The artist in me began to resist the confining egalitarianism and mind-numbing routine of academia. The bureaucracy decayed the sense of wonderment and creativity that are the foundations of learning. I have always been a free-lance person who chooses to make my own way than follow the rest.
Like a cross between a mad scientist and a starving artist, I was wrestling around with frustration as to what do next with my life.

Can you relate to any of this? Many of you are nodding your heads in unison.

After career counseling, business opportunities, years of searching, sustained anxiety, and sleepless nights I finally began to realize I should not be frantically searching outward, but look inward for the answers.
It was sometimes scary and frightening because you don't know what you will unearth as you excavate the fragments of lost hopes and dusty dreams. You'll have to face with what you find. What I discovered was a marriage of art and science that I have been doing for decades - cooking for myself as a single man.

Cooking-for-one-person.com is designed for you: the single person.

I realize there are a number of myths and difficulties surrounding cooking for one person. It's all about you. We all live different lifestyles, so not everything will work for everyone, but everything is tailored for the person cooking for one.

There was so little information available for a person cooking for one. With millions of single people all cooking for themselves, I knew I was in good company - YOU!
This website is a product of my personal work, experience, and love. Its purpose is to guide, instruct, and inspire the millions of people like you who are cooking for one. The art of science of cooking for one person is to be sensible, satisfying, and simplified.

I do not believe you need to be condemned to subsist off of fast food or frozen dinners. You don't need to have a family to validate eating yummy foods to make your tummy happy.
I worked in the organic health food industry for a short time, so this site accentuates whole, real foods without being unreasonble. I also grew up in under the influence of my suburban family who ate local before it became socially fashionable.

I would pick cherries on an early July morning, and have homemade cherry pie for dinner that night. Summer afternoons of picking blackberries would result in chilly January mornings with jam-topped toast. Our family had a generation-long relationship with a family farm.
Since you live alone, you may not be able to "go back to the land" because your fourth floor apartment doesn't include a patch of green, but you can eat real food with real flavor and real inherent nutrients.

A simple approach: balanced, authentic food.

You fill in the personal gaps or exceptions. Few things in life can effect your health and well-being more than good food.
It puzzles me that many singles view eating/cooking as an inconvenience, as simply a chore of "refueling". Many spend more time putting clothes on their bodies than deciding what will go into their bodies. Nobody feeds us except ourselves. We make the decisions as to what to eat.

I am not a chef, nor do I claim to be. Unless you have a chef or cook cooking for you, I designed this site with the realization that you will be doing the cooking. Your mother or grandmother may not have been a chef or master cook, but their food was cooked with love and care.
Even though you are one person, you still deserve TLC. You want to fix and eat good food, your ambition may not to be a gourmet chef. That is beyond the realm of this site. This site does not explicitly endorse any definite diet plan or regime.

This website is your virtual handbook. Snoop around and come back often. The kitchen's always open for you!

Cheers,

Keith

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