Ruth reichl
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Down and Out in Paris and London
2 recommendations
"Contains a remarkably graphic, and completely unforgettable, behind-the-scenes look at restaurant kitchens."
Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen
3 recommendations
"A real treat to read writer Laurie Colwin, and follw up with A Writer Returns to the Kitchen."
Up in the Old Hotel
1 recommendation
"The ultimate writer's writer, Mitchell is not usually thought of as someone who focuses on food. But many of his stories are about markets, pubs and restaurants. And this book contains my all-time favorite food story, "All You Can Hold for Five Bucks.""
The Language of Baklava
1 recommendation
"The author, Daina Abu-Jabar, said to Reichl: "There's something safe and wonderful about being raised by a strict father, but it has its drawbacks." That's pretty much what this memoir about growing up partly in Jordan and always with food is about."
The Kitchen Diaries: A Year in the Kitchen with Nigel Slater
1 recommendation
""I don't think anybody has ever made food sound more delicious," Reichl says of writer Nigel Slater. "When he describes a beet, for instance, it comes alive for you on the page and you suddenly want to run out and eat as many beets as you possibly can," Reichl says. "It's just sheer pleasure and sensuousness.""
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
2 recommendations
"Ruth Reichl says that Barbara Kingsolver is an "extraordinary writer who decides for a year, she and her family are going to try to raise all their food or get it from neighbors.""
Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris
3 recommendations
"There are few writers who can make us want to pack our bags and jump on a plane just so we can lunch in Paris. Liebling is one of those writers. A contemporary of Hemingway, Liebling makes us wish for a time-machine to go along with our plane ticket. This book should be on every foodies bookshelf."
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
5 recommendations
"The book that launched Anthony Bourdain into fame. It's a little over-the-top machismo, but a fun romp in the kitchen nevertheless."
The Man Who Ate Everything
2 recommendations
"One of my all-time favorite books, and life-changing for me. Jeffrey Steingarten is an excellent writer. It'll make you see food in a whole new light."
Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
4 recommendations
"Delicious and exciting stories. Well researched and beautifully written."
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
6 recommendations
"A funny, excellent book. Perfect for the restaurant critic and actor in us all!"
Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table
1 recommendation
"Ruth Reichl is really quite a good read. Whether she's writing about food or writing about writing about food it's equally entertaining. And this book, which picks up where tender at the bone left off, looks to be no exception."
The Last Chinese Chef
1 recommendation
"Ruth Reichl says, "The most thorough explanation of Chinese food that I've ever read in the English language.""
Talk Talk
1 recommendation
"A novel about identity theft that contains some of the most wonderful descriptions of cooking that Ruth Reichl has ever read."
The Apprentice: My Life In The Kitchen
1 recommendation
"There is a reason why Jacques Pepin became one of our most celebrated French chefs. He's a cook with a remarkably interesting mind."
The Tummy Trilogy
1 recommendation
"This could be subtitled: Why life is more fun for people who like to eat."
Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India
1 recommendation
"Madhur Jaffrey is an extraordinary cook with an amazing ability to recall and re-create the evocative flavors of the India she grew up in."
The Gastronomical Me
1 recommendation
"Written in the early '40s, one of the very first food memoirs, and penned by the queen of food writing, MFK Fisher."




