Ingredients: a telephone book and a phone.

Forty-five minutes later, a knock at the door means dinner is served.

Serving up a delightful meal for one shouldn’t require pressing the telephone redial button to a favorite restaurant.

“It’s hard, but you have to adapt,” said single chef Barry Reid of Knoxville, Tenn.

“In a sense, you have to learn to cook all over again,” he said, especially in regard to those who have suddenly become a family of one through divorce, death or the empty-nest syndrome.

Cooking solo can be achieved in a family-serving sized world in which many cookbooks and sales at grocery stores cater to the image of a couple and their two kids.

“When you are single,” Reid said, “you have to avoid the frustration of scaling a recipe down from four to one serving. This usually leads to avoidance of cooking altogether.

“Home cooking is worthwhile just because it is healthier. You know exactly what you are getting.”

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