Saturday Night Widows (43 page)

No one contributed more to this book than my husband Bob Spitz. Working back-to-back in our little office as I wrote the manuscript and he completed his biography of Julia Child, I’m surprised the words
Bon appétit!
didn’t slip into these pages somewhere. He pulled me through, contributing everything from big ideas to the smallest syntactical fixes. For Bob—after all we’ve been through together already and all that I forsee for the rest of our lives—I expect to feel gratitude for a long, long time.