I had/am having a slightly difficult time processing this book. Luckily it is short, very short - like you could read it in two hours short. Here's my thought process as I finish this book. It brings up the age old feminist tale of "don't make me stay in the kitchen, I want a career dammit!" Prob...
This was a beautiful book. The combination of love, sorrow, travel and food all seamlessly woven together was a delight to read.Ruth Reichl is brave enough to be truthful and it makes you love her. A hippie gal living in a commune suddenly gets the job she's always wanted, restaurant critic. Her ...
I listened to this on audiobook. The version I got from the library was read by Bernadette Dunne. Apparently there is a version out there that is read by Ruth Reichl, which I bet is superior. Bernadette was, well, mostly adequate but she mispronounced geoduck. Since I live in Olympia, I think I'm...
I’m not normally a big fan of books about food. They always leave me cursing my limited culinary abilities and hungry for foods that are far outside of my price range, not to mention excluded by various personal dietary choices. I likely never would have picked up anything by Ruth Reichl had I ...