

Tender at the Bone
Author: Ruth Reichl
Narrator: Ruth Reichl
Abridged: 5 hr 51 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
Published: 07/05/2000
Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Culinary, Women, Memoirs
Author: Ruth Reichl
Narrator: Ruth Reichl
Abridged: 5 hr 51 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
Published: 07/05/2000
Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Culinary, Women, Memoirs
Ruth Reichl is the editor in chief of Gourmet and the author of the bestselling Tender at the Bone, a James Beard Award finalist. She has been the restaurant critic at The New York Times and the food editor and restaurant critic as the Los Angeles Times. Reichl lives in New York City.
Makes me think maybe I should go back to cooking more often. Enjoyable memoir.......more
More interesting things have happened in one day of Ruth Reichl’s life than my entire existence. Seriously. My life is so boring! Definitely preferred the first half to the second half, but still a very entertaining food memoir.......more
I’m not normally a big fan of books about food. They always leave me cursing my limited culinary abilities and hungry for foods that are far outside of my price range, not to mention excluded by various personal dietary choices. I likely never would have picked up anything by Ruth Reichl had I not f......more
“Reading Ruth Reichl on food is almost as good as eating it. . . . Reichl makes the reader feel present with her, sharing the experience.”—Washington Post Book World
“An absolute delight to read . . . how lucky we are that [Reichl] had the courage to follow her appetite.”—Newsday
“A poignant, yet hilarious, collection of stories about people [Reichl] has known and loved, and who, knowingly or unknowingly, steered her on the path to fulfill her destiny as one of the world's leading food writers.”—Chicago Sun-Times
“While all good food writers are humorous . . . few are so riotously, effortlessly entertaining as Ruth Reichl. . . . [She] is also witty, fair-minded, brave, and a wonderful writer.”—New York Times Book Review
“[In] this lovely memoir . . . we find young Ruth desperately trying to steer her manic mother's unwary guests toward something edible. It's a job she does now . . . in her columns, and whose intimate imperatives she illuminates in this graceful book.”—The New Yorker
“A savory memoir of [Reichl's] apprentice years. . . . Reichl describes [her] experiences with infectious humor, . . . the descriptions of each sublime taste are mouth-wateringly precise. . . . A perfectly balanced stew of memories.”—Kirkus Reviews