Rating: Summary: Adventures in food and sex Review: This is a fun book - engaging, sexy, plus great descriptions of food. I loved Tender at the Bone, but I enjoyed this one even more. I'm a food freak, which made me love this book. Plus, I loved the hippie backdrop.
Rating: Summary: BETCHA YOU'LL WANT TO READ THE PRINT VERSION! Review: Oh my..what a grand (true) story of someone's life. A young person who started out from the nothing-ness of non achievement up to being the restaurant critic for the Los Angeles Time and the New York Times; how much better can it be?Ruth's life started out as being a hippie type person living in a commune, but leveled out to becoming within the mainstream of life like the rest of us. The ups and downs are most interesting to read about and particularly the experience of Wolfgang Puck (a good personal friend)starting his first restaurant in L.A. along with his Significant Other and the tribulations to get the business opened. You probably will want to read the whole book after you hear this appreviated rendition; it's a winner from beginning to end.
Rating: Summary: Barely finished her first before starting this one! Review: Ruth Reichl's second autobiography is better than her first which was a wonderful surprise since the first was so good! It is funny, educational, and heartbreaking in parts. Again including recipes which you will want to try, Ms. Reichl writes mouth-watering food descriptions which will conjure pictures like no other food writer I have read. Read it for the biography of a chef, food critic and Editor-in-Chief of Gourmet Magazine or read it as the story of a woman growing up and growing in the 60's and 70's. Food, ingredients, and travels are described in glorious detail. I look forward to reading more of Ruth Reichl's writing.
Rating: Summary: Honest and entertaining Review: This author is very talented - this is a great story made even better by the fact that it is really her life! She writes honestly about things she is not proud of doing, tragedies she has endured, and her unabashed LOVE of all things related to food - even includes recipes as needed. If you are a person who appreciates the contribution of food to quality of life, you will love this book.
Rating: Summary: Ruth is all grown up and has some secrets to share Review: Compared to the innocent younger Ruth in the "Tender at The Bone," this Ruth is strong, powerful, and a little fragile too. It's so rare that I have found someone who successfully tells stories through food. Ruth Reichl has turned her life out onto the page and done so in a course of episodes around the tables and gardens of her life. It seems to me that very little of her life has taken her anyplace where food wasn't the focus. From California to Asia to Europe, Ruth Reichl creates wonderful scenes of her not always so wonderful life experiences. I still want more!
Rating: Summary: Delicious and Sensual Review: This book has taken me on a journey that I live in my fantasy world. I am a true foodie and this book helped me re- live the glorious days in LA restaurants. I remember Michael's and Ma Maison..and even the re? of Perino's..I returned to LA when Chinois was "opening". I have great stories of my own; unfortunately I do not have the gift of verbal sophistication that Ms. Reichl has revealed. I can hardly wait to buy her previous book, Tender at the Bone. A truly gifted writer. Even if one is not a foodie, they can appreciate the romance, humor and adventure in "Comfort Me With Apples."
Rating: Summary: Couldn't put it down! Review: I absolutely loved this book. I was so sorry to come to the end...I went immediately to the book store and bought Ruth's first book. (Actually, you should read Tender at the Bone first.) I've passed both books along to friends who equally loved it.
Rating: Summary: A Comfortable Read Review: Ruth Reichl has an amazing ability to write about her life in what one would assume is strict honesty, since it is not all flattering to her. Still, I finished reading this book in about 2 days flat because her life reads like really good fiction - drama interspersed with lots of humor. I was a big fan of her first memoir, TENDER AT THE BONE, and this book read like the next chapter. You'll do yourself a favor if you read them one right after the other. While her tone and uncompromising gaze upon her life do not alter from the first to second book, in COMFORT ME WITH APPLES she seems to have deeper insights into her own soul, and her choice of recipes often reflects this insight.
Rating: Summary: FOOD AND LIFE Review: I loved this book. Reichl's coming of age as a food critic was honest and edgy. She's able to evoke the sense of food and place in wonderfully descriptive words that make you feel like you're at the table. She also gives you a peek into her personal life that most 30 something women would relat to. If you're just looking for a cookbook or insight into the food business, forget it. This is so much more! A wonderful funny, touching memoir.
Rating: Summary: All in all, a disappointment. Review: I found the parts of the book that stuck to the descriptions of locales and their cuisines to be enjoyable, but it seemed the reader was too frequently dragged back into listening to Ms. Reichl's tales about the fortunes - or misfortunes - of her love life. Of the 300 pages it seemed like more than half were devoted to her personal travails. Hopefully the next time she will favor us with more insights into the world of restaurants and the creation of American cuisine.
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