Episode 40

🎙 LIVE SHOW

📺 SERIES: FOOD MEDIA AWAKENING

🍾 DRINKS WEEK 2019

🧁 BAKING WEEK 2019

🥧 PIE WEEK 2021

Monday, May 6, 2019

36:23

Ruth Reichl on her childhood, the final days of Gourmet, and cookbook influences

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Ruth Reichl

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Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir

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Jeweled Chocolate Cake

“Cookbooks are inspirational. If you're going to give a dinner party, you lie in bed at night and … start flipping through cookbooks looking for ideas."

This week, we're excited to welcome Ruth Reichl to SALT + SPINE, the podcast on stories behind cookbooks.

Ruth was the final editor of Gourmet magazine and is the author of Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir and My Kitchen Year: 136 Recipes That Saved My Life

Ruth is also the author of Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table, Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Restaurant Critic in Disguise, For You, Mom. Finally., Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table, and Delicious!: A Novel.

VOICES featured in this episode:

FEATURED GUEST

FEATURED COMMENTARY

HOSTED BY

IN THE KITCHEN WITH

FROM THE LIBRARY with

Ruth Reichl

FEATURED GUEST

FEATURED COMMENTARY

HOSTED BY

IN THE KITCHEN WITH

FROM THE LIBRARY with

Brian Hogan Stewart

Host, Salt + Spine

RECIPES featured in this episode:

FEATURED RECIPE

Jeweled Chocolate Cake

COOKBOOKS featured in this episode:

Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir

Start cooking today:

Omnivore Books*Bookshop*Hardcover Cook*IndieBound*Amazon

*denotes local bookstore support

Ruth Reichl on her childhood, the final days of Gourmet, and cookbook influences

VOICES featured in this episode:

FEATURED GUEST

FEATURED COMMENTARY

HOSTED BY

IN THE KITCHEN WITH

FROM THE LIBRARY with

FEATURED GUEST

FEATURED COMMENTARY

HOSTED BY

IN THE KITCHEN WITH

FROM THE LIBRARY with

RECIPES featured in this episode:

Jeweled Chocolate Cake

COOKBOOKS featured in this episode:

Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir

Episode Transcript:

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