New York Times Bestseller from the New York Times food editor and former restaurant critic comes a cookbook to help us rediscover the art of Sunday supper and the joy of gathering with friends and family. A book to make home cooks, and those they feed, very happy indeed. Nigella Lawson Named One of the Best Cookbooks of the Year by Npr, Town Country, Garden Gun, People are lonely, Sam Sifton writes. They want to be part of something, even when they can't identify that longing as a need. They show up. Feed them. It isn't much more complicated than that. Regular dinners with family and friends, he argues, are a metaphor for connection, a space where memories can be shared as easily as salt or hot sauce, where deliciousness reigns. The point of Sunday supper is to gather around a table with good company and eat. From years spent talking to restaurant chefs, cookbook authors, and home cooks in connection with his daily work at The New York Times, Sam Sifton's See You on Sunday is a book to make those dinners possible. It is a guide to preparing meals for groups larger than the average American family though everything here can be scaled down, or up .