We Get to Have Cake!: On Joy, Sadness, and Eating Alone

A Conversation With Margaret Eby

This is the mid-week edition of Men Yell at Me a newsletter about the places our personhood and politics meet. During the month of August, I’ve been writing about feminism and butter cows, the power of state fair food, and today, I talked with Margaret Eby, a food journalist, critic, and author of a forthcoming book about eating alone, about eating alon…