Random House Reader's Circle Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table, (Paperback)

from kdabra4

I'm not a cook by any stretch of the imagination, but for some reason I find Reichl's critiques of food around the world (Thailand, Paris, China, NYC, LA, Barcelona), and her recipes, all so fascinating. I enjoyed Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table awhile back, and this is its sequel. Ab...

from varielle

Ruth Reichl's food and life memoir takes up where the story of her early life, Tender at the Bone left off. Her developing career, communal life and relationship dramas are peppered (punny no?) with accessible recipes throughout. Her visit to a China struggling to open to the west was particularl...

from MrsLee

A very enjoyable read. I suppose this could be considered one of those memoirs where the author fesses up to all their dirty laundry, but it didn't feel like that. It felt like a woman trying to sort through her experiences in life to understand them. This writer ran in the circles of the cooking...

from TadAD

This wasn't quite what I expected...but not in a bad way. I thought this would be a collection of reminiscences about meals eaten. It's true that she does, sometimes, discuss meals she had at certain times in her life, and she provides recipes for some of her favorites. However, this is really ju...

from etxgardener

This book is a sequel to Reichl's What's Bred in the Bone and covers the disintegration of her first marriage, the marriage to her second husband and her move from San Francisco to Los Angeles when she became the food critic for the LA Times. Written in a breezy, yet honest style Reichl weaves he...