The Pickled Egg
Everyone calls her the Pickled Egg. She will tell you so herself and she will not explain it. Seventy, a widow of one year, and the most cheerful woman on her street. A novel, a little book of pocket wisdom, and a cookbook for cooking for one, or two.
3 books, in reading order
The Pickled Egg
Life is Good (Even When It Isn't)
This one is for anyone who has buried someone they loved and still puts the kettle on in the morning. The Pickled Egg is seventy, a widow of one year, and the most cheerful woman on her street. She is not pretending. Over a year of bridge nights, a rabbit that steals her lettuce, and a neighbor who has not smiled since 2004, she shows what paying attention can do. It is a gentle, funny book, and a good one to hand to your mother.
Serves One, Plus Whoever Knocks
A Pickled Egg Cookbook for Cooking for One or Two (The Pickled Egg)
Most cookbooks serve six. She does not have six. She has herself, a garden that produces more zucchini than any reasonable person requires, a neighbor across the street who has never once waved first, and a cardinal named Gerald who takes no interest in any of it. Serves One, Plus Whoever Knocks is sixty-five recipes from the kitchen of the woman everybody calls the Pickled Egg. She cooks for herself most nights. She sets the second place anyway. And she has opinions.
Pickled Egg Pocket Wisdom
Little lessons for days that go right, and the ones that don’t (The Pickled Egg)
Little lessons from The Pickled Egg for good days and the other kind.