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Title: Tender at the Bone : Growing Up at the Table by Ruth Reichl ISBN: 0-7679-0338-2 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 02 March, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.29 (80 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: coming of age around the dinner table...
Comment: Overall, TENDER AT THE BONE is a lovely coming-of-age story with hilarious vignettes that could be woven into a heart-warming comedic drama. All the elements are there, eccentric characters, witty dialogue, over-arching mother-daughter tension and a good meal. The author's childhood is more fascinating, more poignant than her adult transitions, but entire films can be made from many of the short stories.
Fantastic characters people this story, including Ruth herself. Her awkwardness and self-esteem issues are painfully obvious, and make her sympathetic and endearing. She smoothly arcs from innocent child to rebel teen to competent woman. Good read!
Rating: 5
Summary: Ruth Reichl writes a perfect food-lovers tale
Comment: Funny family innuendos meets pleasant field trips on culinary excursions. A great little story about growing up and discovering the rewarding, sometimes almost sinful, pleasures of cooking and food. I enjoyed every lavishly written page! Ruth Reichl has proven her sympathetic nature towards gourmet. Sensual and elaborate, I recommend this book to anyone who has experienced culinary ecstacy, and if you haven't, try one of the remarkable recipes sporadically placed between chapters, and prepare yourself for take-off!!
Rating: 5
Summary: even vegans can love this book.
Comment: i don't eat any animal products, and there are only two or three recipes in this book that i can even relate to, but despite this, i love this book. there is something about people's relationships to food -- how it may enrich their lives or what the food represents to them -- that is fascinating, and in ruth reichl's life, it is no different.
this is a light memoir, and a book that i have read multiple times (i'm probably working on ten). as someone who doesn't read many narratives, it says a lot when i recommend this book so highly.
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Title: Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table by Ruth Reichl ISBN: 0375758739 Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Pub. Date: 09 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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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: 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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Title: Stuffed : Adventures of a Restaurant Family by Patricia Volk ISBN: 0375724990 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 22 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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