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About Ruth Reichl
American chef, food writer, and editor
Ruth Reichl is an American chef, food writer, and editor. For two decades, she worked as a food critic, mainly at the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times. She has 112 quotes on the site. Reichl has also written cookbooks, memoirs, and a novel. Outside print, she served as co-producer of PBS's Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie, culinary editor for the Modern Library, host of PBS's Gourmet's Adventures With Ruth, and editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine. She has won six James Beard Foundation Awards.
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- “Let's face it: my life tends to revolve around food, and I love feeding people.”Ruth Reichl
- “I was in Berkeley when the food energy in America was in Berkeley. Then it moved to Los Angeles, and I went t…”Ruth Reichl
- “That's what I like so much about old libraries - they smell the way we'd like to imagine the past.”Ruth Reichl
- “By the time I met Julia Child, her husband, Paul, was little more than a ghost of a man, so diminished by old…”Ruth Reichl
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- “In a broader sense, the irony in all of this is the single most necessary element for life to exist, in fact,…”Erin Brockovich
- “I'm blessed to still live in Wales. We have the beaches, the mountains, the food, the people of course. We ha…”Colin Jackson
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Books by Ruth Reichl
Comfort Me with Apples
2001
Garlic and Sapphires
2005
Tender at the bone
1998
Delicious!
2014
Not becoming my mother
2009