Recipes for healthy relationships today are not shared with the public only by the lazy. However, the psychologist and educator Michael Matteo was, apparently, the first person who, in this context, decided to use the word “recipe” in its literal, culinary meaning (perhaps because Matteo himself is also a big eater). Of course, his book is not a collection of recipes for a «love potion», the author still talks about the psychology of relationships, their contradictions and pitfalls. However, Michael Matteo managed to immaculately withstand the stylization: he talks about the vicissitudes of friendship and love in terms of chefs and nutritionists, exchanging calories for emotions, harmful foods for people with whom you should stop communicating, and nutritional value for positive emotions. And although the book, perhaps, does not open any Americas, it will certainly find its readers. For example, among those who are tired of the flow of monotonous recipes for harmonious relationships, but still continue to look for the very only recipe that will help them.
Alpina Publisher, 176 p.