Comfort Me with Apples
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BONUS: This edition contains a Comfort Me with Apples discussion guide and an excerpt from Ruth Reichl's Delicious! In this delightful sequel to her bestseller Tender at the Bone, Ruth Reichl returns with more tales of love, life, and marvelous meals. Comfort Me with Apples picks up Reichl’s story in 1978, when she puts down her chef’s toque and embarks on a career as a restaurant critic. Her pursuit of good food and good company leads her to New York and China, France and Los Angeles, and her stories of cooking and dining with world-famous chefs range from the madcap to the sublime. Through it all, Reichl makes each and every course a hilarious and instructive occasion for novices and experts alike. She shares some of her favorite recipes while also sharing the intimacies of her personal life in a style so honest and warm that readers will feel they are enjoying a conversation over a meal with a friend.
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Wow. If you want to read about food and romance, fuck “[b:Eat, Pray, Love 19501 Eat, Pray, Love Elizabeth Gilbert http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1269870432s/19501.jpg 3352398],” and get your hands on this book. Ruth Reichl is a gifted writer and incredibly knowledgeable about food, so her writing about food is nothing short of sublime, but what really makes the book fantastic is her unstinting honesty about all the messy parts of her personal life (and keen observations about her friends, family, and coworkers) as she moved professionally from a line cook in Berkeley to the food critic for the LA Times. No pun intended, because it's too apt to be funny–this book is juicy. And there's nothing better than a recipe with a little history to it, so it went right on the shelf with my other cookbooks, and I'm already plotting occasions to try recreate some of the food from her life in mine.
