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Home for Dinner

“There are magical opportunities for tenderness, courage, healing, laughter—and almost everything else it means to be human—when the people we love come together to eat the food we love. This remarkably wise, engaging, lovely book is an invaluable guide for all of us in creating this magic. Give yourself the pleasure of reading it and join The Family Dinner Project.”

—Richard Weissbourd, Faculty Director of the Human Development and Psychology Program, Harvard Graduate School of Education

“Anne Fishel’s warmth, wisdom, and humor are the ingredients that make this book such a delight to read. I recommend it to anyone who has the opportunity to eat with others—new couples, parents, and grandparents—because while it delights you, it will also convince you that we can and should eat well and do it together.”

—Paula Rauch, MD, Director, Marjorie E. Korff PACT Program (Parenting At a Challenging Time); Program Director, Family Support and Outreach, Red Sox Foundation/MGH Home Base Program; Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

“Anne Fishel’s book Home for Dinner is simply delicious. It is filled with helpful suggestions about family dinners rich with fun and good food. The book is packed with recipes for food, conversation, and community building. Anyone can read it, enjoy the completely engaging style, and learn to reap the health, mental health, and family benefits of family dinners.”

—John Sargent, MD, Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, Tufts University School of Medicine

“Anne Fishel serves up a sumptuous banquet of compelling science, clinical wisdom, family psychology, delicious recipes, and a lively, personal style into a single book that will nourish families in mind, body, and spirit.”

—Martha B. Straus, Ph.D., Professor of Clinical Psychology, Antioch University New England; author of Adolescent Girls in Crisis: Intervention and Hope

“Home for Dinner offers a feast of insights, hands-on advice, and mouthwatering recipes that will equip readers to turn the necessity of eating into an opportunity for growing family relationships, building children’s intelligence and social skills, and nourishing healthy bodies and minds. Research-based, story-sprinkled, and supremely practical—an enlightening read.”

—Abigail Carroll, author of Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal