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Save Me the Plums – Ruth Reichl
Digital audiobook read by the author.
4****

Subtitle: My Gourmet Memoir

Reichl has written before about her time as a food critic and about her mother, here she tackles the years she spent as editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine.

I love her writing. It is nothing short of delicious. She is open, honest and insightful. She writes about not just what happened but how she felt about what was happening. Her bafflement and near terror at realizing she really had no idea about running a magazine comes through. As does her sheer delight in creating something new and exciting, in finding the right business colleagues to push the magazine in new directions.

And, as usual, she really excels when writing about food, whether is a “yaffy” moment of testing sloppy joe mix or experiencing a truly gourmet-quality meal in a tiny French restaurant or even making a quick Spicy Chinese noodles snack for her son late at night. I may have gained 10 pounds just reading about her food experiences.

Reichl narrates the audiobook herself. I cannot imagine anyone else doing a better job of it.


LINK to my review

Ruth Reichl is one of my favorites, starting with her book Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table. I've read Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir as well and am glad you enjoyed it. You're right - No one writes about food quite like Ruth.