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Comfort Me with Apples

More Adventures at the Table

More Adventures at the Table

More Adventures at the Table

By Ruth Reichl
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Paperback $18.00

May 25, 2010 | ISBN 9780812981629

Ebook $13.99

Jun 12, 2001 | ISBN 9780375507045

Audiobook Download $12.95

Apr 10, 2001 | 329 Minutes

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    About Comfort Me with Apples

    In this delightful sequel to her bestseller Tender at the Bone, Ruth Reichl returns with more tales of love, life, and marvelous meals. Comfort Me with Apples picks up Reichl’s story in 1978, when she puts down her chef’s toque and embarks on a career as a restaurant critic. Her pursuit of good food and good company leads her to New York and China, France and Los Angeles, and her stories of cooking and dining with world-famous chefs range from the madcap to the sublime. Through it all, Reichl makes each and every course a hilarious and instructive occasion for novices and experts alike. She shares some of her favorite recipes while also sharing the intimacies of her personal life in a style so honest and warm that readers will feel they are enjoying a conversation over a meal with a friend.

    About Comfort Me with Apples

    BONUS: This edition contains a Comfort Me with Apples discussion guide and an excerpt from Ruth Reichl’s Delicious!

    In this delightful sequel to her bestseller Tender at the Bone, Ruth Reichl returns with more tales of love, life, and marvelous meals. Comfort Me with Apples picks up Reichl’s story in 1978, when she puts down her chef’s toque and embarks on a career as a restaurant critic. Her pursuit of good food and good company leads her to New York and China, France and Los Angeles, and her stories of cooking and dining with world-famous chefs range from the madcap to the sublime. Through it all, Reichl makes each and every course a hilarious and instructive occasion for novices and experts alike. She shares some of her favorite recipes while also sharing the intimacies of her personal life in a style so honest and warm that readers will feel they are enjoying a conversation over a meal with a friend.

    About Comfort Me with Apples

    In Ruth Reichl’s latest book — one that will delight her fans and convert those as yet uninitiated to her charming tales — the author brings to life her adventures in pursuit of good meals and good company. Picking up where Tender at the Bone leaves off, Comfort Me with Apples recounts Reichl’s transformation from chef to food writer, a process that led her through restaurants from Bangkok to Paris to Los Angeles and brought lessons in life, love, and food.

    It is an apprenticeship by turns delightful and daunting, one told in the most winning and engaging of voices. Reichl’s anecdotes from a summer lunch with M.F.K. Fisher, a mad dash through the produce market with Wolfgang Puck, and a garlic feast with Alice Waters are priceless. She is unafraid — even eager — to poke holes in the pretensions of food critics, making each meal a hilarious and instructive occasion for novices and experts alike. The New York Times has said, “While all good food critics are humorous .. few are so riotously, effortlessly entertaining as Ruth Reichl.” In Comfort Me with Apples, Reichl once again demonstrates her inimitable ability to combine food writing, humor, and memoir into an art form.

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    Also by Ruth Reichl

    The Paris Novel
    Save Me the Plums
    My Kitchen Year
    Delicious!
    Comfort Me with Apples and Tender at the Bone: Two Culinary Treasures
    See all books by Ruth Reichl

    Also by Ruth Reichl

    The Paris Novel
    Save Me the Plums
    My Kitchen Year
    Delicious!
    Comfort Me with Apples and Tender at the Bone: Two Culinary Treasures
    See all books by Ruth Reichl

    Also by Ruth Reichl

    The Paris Novel
    Save Me the Plums
    My Kitchen Year
    Delicious!
    Comfort Me with Apples and Tender at the Bone: Two Culinary Treasures
    See all books by Ruth Reichl

    About Ruth Reichl

    Ruth Reichl is the New York Times bestselling author of five memoirs, the novel Delicious!, and the cookbook My Kitchen Year. She was editor in chief of Gourmet magazine, and previously served as restaurant critic for The New York Times, as… More about Ruth Reichl

    About Ruth Reichl

    Ruth Reichl is the New York Times bestselling author of five memoirs, the novel Delicious!, and the cookbook My Kitchen Year. She was editor in chief of Gourmet magazine, and previously served as restaurant critic for The New York Times, as… More about Ruth Reichl

    About Ruth Reichl

    Ruth Reichl is the New York Times bestselling author of five memoirs, the novel Delicious!, and the cookbook My Kitchen Year. She was editor in chief of Gourmet magazine, and previously served as restaurant critic for The New York Times, as… More about Ruth Reichl

    Product Details

    Category: Biography & Memoir | Food Memoir & Travel

    Paperback | $18.00
    Published by Random House Trade Paperbacks
    May 25, 2010 | 336 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780812981629

    Category: Biography & Memoir | Food Memoir & Travel

    Ebook | $13.99
    Published by Random House
    Jun 12, 2001 | 320 Pages | ISBN 9780375507045

    Category: Biography & Memoir | Food Memoir & Travel | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $12.95
    Published by Random House Audio
    Apr 10, 2001 | 329 Minutes | ISBN 9780739300053

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    Praise

    “Reichl writes with gusto, and her story has all the ingredients of a modern fairy tale: hard work, weird food, and endless curiosity.”
    —The New Yorker

    “So many memoirs annoy by telling either too much or too little. This one tells just enough….The book reads not like life described but like life lived and then shaped….Each story affirms [Reichl’s] desire to get beyond the surface, even as she celebrates its unlikely depths.”
    —The New York Times

    “Magnificent, riotous, erotic…[Comfort Me with Apples] is an extended, lilting song about lovesickness and the restorative succor of good food….Two courses of Reichl’s literary cooking will leave still-ravenous readers hoping for a third serving soon. [Rating:] A.”
    —Entertainment Weekly

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