How to Cook Like a ManA Memoir of Cookbook Obsession

When Daniel Duane became a father, this San Francisco surfer and climber found himself at home with no clue how to contribute. Inept at so many domestic tasks, and less than eager to change diapers, he took on dinner duty. He didn’t have much cooking experience but Chef Alice Waters had been his preschool teacher so he cracked one of her Chez Panisse cookbooks and cooked his way through it. And so it went with thousands of recipes in all, amounting to an epic eight-year cooking journey. In the end, Duane learned not just how to cook like a man, but how to be one.

Daniel Duane is the author of several books, fiction and nonfiction, including the surfer classic Caught Inside. His writing has appeared in Bon Appetit, Food & Wine, the New York Times Magazine, Esquire, GQ, and elsewhere, and he is a contributing editor at Men’s Journal. Duane lives in San Francisco with his two daughters and his wife, the writer Elizabeth Weil.

Visit his Web site at www.danielduane.com