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Title: Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table by Ruth Reichl ISBN: 0-375-75873-9 Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Pub. Date: 09 April, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.13 (62 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: --Amusing, Anecdotal and Sensual--
Comment: COMFORT ME WITH APPLES takes place in the 1970's and is an autobiographical story that is both candid and provocative. The author is Ruth Reichl, a chef who became a food writer for the New York Times and Gourmet magazine. She's a talented writer and has a unique style that's all her own.
Ruth Reichl's life is as much about people as it is about the foods that they shared together. Her travels around the world seeking adventure in culinary delights makes for fascinating reading. Her sensuous journey into the exotic world of food took her from China to France and from California to New York. The book is filed with anecdotes about famous chefs including a movie star who was also a terrific cook.
She was quite open about her failing marriage and her various love affairs. Although it was captivating to read about, Reichl seemed to be a woman who was, at times, emotionally out of control. While reading the book, I'd often catch myself thinking, "Oh, no, Ruth don't get mixed up with that guy."
Yes, Ruth included quite a few recipes. My favorite was the one for mushroom soup.
Rating: 5
Summary: Captivating story of love,culinary adventure ,humor abounds
Comment: I've rushed reading this book because I could not put it down. Ruth writes with all her senses. She recreates the smells, the taste, the the texture, the appearance, the sound of food. I have totally enjoyed her sharing the humorous, unique experiences she has had reviewing restauerants, traveling , cooking, famous and not so famous friendships, tender relationships, difficult transitions, and a mother that would try the patience of Job. Throughout all the details shines a love of life and an amazing ability to experience and write about food in such full terms that you feel you are with her in the experience. At the end of each chapter is a recipe or 2 that was mentioned in her adventures. I plan on trying the pasta recipe first. I hope book number 3 is coming soon.
Rating: 4
Summary: Surprisingly touching sequel to Tender at the Bone
Comment: I wasn't prepared for the poignant writing in Ruth Reichl's sequel to her first (and excellent) memoir, Tender at the Bone. In Comfort Me with Apples, Reichl indeed needs some comforting. Her writing is sure and confident as she opens her heart and her soul to readers who are interested in her adult life, including her years in a Berkeley commune, her marriages, love affairs, job history (she's editor of Gourmet), and some terrific recipes along the way. The most difficult and heartbreaking section relates the achingly sad story of her adoption and rearing of a little girl - and then losing her at the last minute when the mother recanted.
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Title: Tender at the Bone : Growing Up at the Table by Ruth Reichl ISBN: 0767903382 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 02 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Endless Feasts : Sixty Years of Writing from Gourmet by Ruth Reichl, Gourmet Magazine Editors ISBN: 0375759921 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 22 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Art of Eating by M. F. K. Fisher ISBN: 0020322208 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 09 May, 1990 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain ISBN: 0060934913 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 08 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Man Who Ate Everything by Jeffrey Steingarten ISBN: 0375702024 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 27 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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