Dinner for One, Sutanya Dacres
Dinner for One, Sutanya Dacres
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Dinner for One
How Cooking in Paris Saved Me

Author: Sutanya Dacres

Narrator: Imani Jade Powers

Unabridged: 8 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/21/2022

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

From podcast host Sutanya Dacres comes Dinner for One, an unforgettable memoir of how she rebuilt her life after her American-in-Paris fairy tale shattered, starting with cooking dinner for herself in her Montmartre kitchen

When Sutanya Dacres married her French boyfriend and moved to Paris at twenty-seven, she felt like she was living out her very own Nora Ephron romantic comedy. Jamaican-born and Bronx-raised, she had never dreamed she herself could be one of those American women in Paris she admired from afar via their blogs, until she met the man of her dreams one night in Manhattan. A couple of years later, she married her Frenchman and moved to Paris, embarking on her own “happily-ever-after.” But when her marriage abruptly ended, the fairy tale came crashing down around her.

Reeling from her sudden divorce and the cracked facade of that picture-perfect expat life, Sutanya grew determined to mend her broken heart and learn to love herself again. She began by cooking dinner for one in her Montmartre kitchen. Along the way, she builds Parisienne friendships, learns how to date in French, and examines what it means to be a Black American woman in Paris—all while adopting the French principle of pleasure, especially when it comes to good food, and exploring what the concept of self-care really means.

Brimming with charm, humor, and hard-won wisdom, Sutanya's story takes you on an adventure through love, loss, and finding where you truly belong, even when it doesn’t look quite how you expected.

Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

About Sutanya Dacres

Sutanya Dacres is the creator and host of the podcast Dinner for One, which has been featured in The New York Times and BBC Radio Hour, among other outlets. She has held a number of copywriting positions in New York City and Paris. Having grown up in New York City, she currently resides, and cooks dinners for one, in the Montmartre neighborhood of Paris. Dinner for One is her first book.


Reviews

Goodreads review by dessertcomes1st on June 25, 2022

There's no doubting that this is a heartfelt and well-written memoir but I feel that the title is misleading. There's hardly any mention of food or cooking until 60% into the book. I also feel that there are problems with pacing. The first half of the book is eloquently written but then suddenly the......more

Goodreads review by Heidi on November 01, 2022

This book was so promising. Dinner for one? A memoir on cooking? No. It was a memoir on divorce, ex-pat life and being too immature to compromise. There was a bit of food but it was very late in the book and we already knew about the divorce. Why go through it in so much detail?! Or do, but give it......more

Goodreads review by Ann on July 07, 2022

Born in Jamaica, raised in the Bronx, Sutanya Dacres met and married a cute French guy and moved to Paris. It seemed like a fairy tale – until the marriage crashed and burned. She tells her story in Dinner for One, a clear-eyed memoir about cooking your way through a broken heart in Paris, and a ref......more

Goodreads review by Moriah on July 28, 2022

What a refreshing tale! A true story about what it's like to live in Paris, being here for love, and how not everyday turns out to be a fairytale. We are all just figuring it out. If you love Paris but want to know what it's really like to live here, then read Dinner for One!......more

Goodreads review by Tara on November 27, 2022

3 stars because, while I did enjoy it, and cooking in Paris did save her in the last ~50 or so pages, it definitely wasn't the focus of the majority of the book. Also, a few editing errors/typos.......more