Ruth Reichl | |
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.jpg) Reichl in 2012 | |
| Born | 1948 (age 75–76) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Food writer, magazine editor, chef |
| Genre | Cooking |
Ruth Reichl (/ˈraɪʃəl/ RY-shəl; born 1948) is an American chef, food writer and editor. In addition to two decades as a food critic, mainly spent at the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times, Reichl has also written cookbooks, memoirs and a novel, and has been 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.
Reichl's memoirs are Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table (1998), Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table, Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise, Not Becoming My Mother, and Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir (2019).[1] In 2009, she published Gourmet Today, a 1,008 page cookbook containing over 1,000 recipes. She published her first novel, Delicious! in 2014, and, in 2015, published My Kitchen Year: 136 Recipes That Saved My Life, a memoir of recipes prepared in the year following the shuttering of Gourmet.[2]
- ^ "Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise (review)". Archived from the original on 2010-08-10. Retrieved 2010-06-09.
- ^ "Cookbook review: In 'My Kitchen Year,' Ruth Reichl soldiers on after gourmet shutdown". Los Angeles Times. 6 November 2015. Archived from the original on 2016-03-06. Retrieved 2016-02-29.