Ruth Reichl

Delectable food, but insipid novel

Ruth Reichl was the restaurant reviewer for the New York Times for almost a decade in the 1990s. Many of her readers must have been like me: a thousand miles away from the restaurants she reviewed, and far below the...

Icing on the cake

~ Tender at the Bone, by Ruth Reichl ~ I first came across Ruth Reichl in the early 1990s. We had a small baby and perforce spent much of our time at home, and the New York Times dining section...