Tender at the Bone : Growing Up at the Table

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Summary: The only bad part....
Review: ...of this book was finally coming to the end. One of the best books I have read in a long time. I am a "foodie" and avid cook so I enjoyed it that much more I suppose, but this is a great read for anyone -- gourmet-in-training or take-out queen.

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Summary: A Must-Read for the aspiring gourmet
Review: This book is brilliantly written and charmingly narrated. It takes the reader on a fascinating journey of a woman who stumbles upon her true calling as a gourmet; despite her humble beginnings as a child of a horrible cook. Witty, impossible to put down.

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Summary: A story of a personal getting of wisdom crowded with memorab
Review: This is a very enjoyable autobiographical account of a foodie discovering a range of cooking and eating possibilities way beyond her first, rather ghastly, home experiences. Reichl introduces us to memorable characters who accidentally or deliberately guided the development of her taste/s. I read it through at a sitting the first time. Now I am reading it more slowly and photocopying some of the recipes because I don't want to cover the book in grease. Highly recommended as a story of a personal "getting of wisdom", as well as a narrative which is crowded with memorable characters. P.S. I ordered as a companion, and am still reading, the 1998 compilation of essays about food, We are What we Ate, edited by Mark Winegardner.

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Summary: Sytlish, funny, engaging
Review: "Root," the young French-Canadian girls called her when she arrived to study here in Montreal. This is an entertaining book about Ms. Reichl's growing-up years. You don't have to be a foodie to get into it. I'm a culinary numbskull yet I thoroughly enjoyed her numerous anecdotes about the people and places she has known. The writing is clean and polished, just what you'd expect from a former New York Times restaurant critic. A pleasure.

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Summary: A great book!
Review: I thought this book was great! I guess I wasn't disappointed with the ending because I then went on to read "DINING OUT" by Andrew Dornenburg -- another great book in which Reichl is featured prominently, both on the cover and in the text as one of America's leading restaurant critics. After reading how she developed her passion for food in "TENDER AT THE BONE", I loved learning what her life as a restaurant reviewer was like in "DINING OUT"!

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Summary: A wonderful, flavorful tale of living life~
Review: Ruth Reihl's story is an exotic meal of life experiences: adventurous, exciting, often oddly-seasoned. However, I, too, was disappointed in the abrupt ending. Her recounts of her early years made me laugh aloud!

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Summary: Delicious!
Review: Reichl's memoir is very funny and touching. Very interesting for anyone employed in or considering employement in the food industry. I hope she writes a sequel.

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Summary: An 'OK' read
Review: I enjoyed the book except for the end ... it ends extremely abruptly, like a car that has just run out of gas !!! You are left asking questions about the various people you read about all through the book -are they still alive, divorced,WHAT !!! Maybe she's planning a sequel ...

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Summary: The book kept novice reader very interested and entertained.
Review: Only having recently begun to read, I thoroughly enjoyed this book - at least once I got past the first chapter, which seemed slow. Perhaps it was because I grew up in the same time as that described in the book; or maybe because of the delightful descriptions of the circumstances encountered throughout; but whatever the reason, I did not want the story to end. I can only thank Ruth Reichl for sharing part of her life with us.

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Summary: Memoir of a former hippie with a mother complex
Review: After enjoying the author's witty restaurant reviews, I was really looking forward to reading this book. Aside from some wonderful descriptions (particularly "the old, cold taste of olives"), this book is rife with '60s flower child attitude. Mostly tiresome and definitely cliche (all RIGHT, we get the idea the author isn't racially biased), the post-mortem attacks on the author's mother seem unnecessary and distracting. I'll stick with M.F.K. Fischer.