The shelf · Cooking for one

Does Serve Yourself hold up?

Serve Yourself: Nightly Adventures in Cooking for One, by Joe Yonan (2011)

A cookbook of single-portion recipes by the Washington Post's food editor, with tips on shopping and storing food to avoid waste.

The short answer

Cannot be checked as worded. One-person households rose from 20% of US households in 1975 to 29% (39.7 million) in 2025, but the Census Bureau does not rank household types by growth rate.

The claims, checked

No claim in this book could be matched to an official record that measures the same thing, so none is given a verdict.