Comfort Me with Apples by Ruth Reichl

Comfort Me with Apples by Ruth Reichl

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This is "Gourmet" editor Ruth Reichl's memoir, a pursuit of good food and good company which takes her from New York to China and from France to Los Angeles. Along the way she cooks and dines with world-famous chefs and is initiated into the arcane mysteries of French haute cuisine.

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Comfort Me with Apples by Ruth Reichl

In this engaging memoir, food writer Ruth Reichl, author of the acclaimed "Tender at the Bone", dishes up a celebration of love, life, humour and the pleasures of the table. Ruth Reichl's pursuit of good food and good company takes her from New York to China and from France to Los Angeles. Along the way she cooks and dines with world-famous chefs and is initiated into the arcane mysteries of French haute cuisine, recreating these unforgettable encounters so that readers can almost taste the earthy truffles of Provence and the tang of Chinese Dry-fried Shrimp. Whether poking holes in the pretensions of food critics, chronicling the sad, sweet parting from her first husband, the death of her beloved father or the joy of falling in love, Ruth Reichl tells her story with warm humour and a sense of the absurd.
In this memoir, food writer Ruth Reichl, author of the acclaimed TENDER AT THE BONE, dishes up a celebration of love, life, humour and the pleasures of the table
Ruth Reichl is the editor in chief of Gourmet and the author of the bestselling Tender at the Bone, a James Beard Award finalist. She has been the restaurant critic at the New York Times and the food editor and restaurant critic at the Los Angeles Times. Reichl lives in New York City with her husband, her son, and two cats.
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ISBN 13 9780712617956
ISBN 10 0712617957
Title Comfort Me with Apples
Author Ruth Reichl
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Cornerstone
Year published 2002-06-06
Number of pages 320
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