Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table - Rilegato

Reichl, Ruth

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ISBN 10: 0679449876 ISBN 13: 9780679449874

Casa editrice: Random House Inc, 1998

Riassunto

A restaurant critic for The New York Times offers a beautifully written, laugh-out-loud memoir--with recipes--of a life spent as a restaurant owner, chef, and food critic, from California to New York City. 40,000 first printing. Tour.

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Ruth Reichl is the restaurant critic of The New York Times. She lives in New York City with her husband, her son, and two cats.

Ruth Reichl is the restaurant critic of The New York Times.

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r worse, almost all of us grow up at the table. It is in this setting that Ruth Reichl's brilliantly written memoir takes its form. For, at a very early age, Reichl discovered that "food could be a way of making sense of the world . . . if you watched people as they ate, you could find out who they were."

Tender at the Bone is the story of a life determined, enhanced, and defined in equal measure by unforgettable people, the love of tales well told, and a passion for food. In other words, the stuff of the best literature. The journey begins with Reichl's mother, the notorious food-poisoner known for-evermore as the Queen of Mold, and moves on to the fabled Mrs. Peavey, onetime Baltimore socialite millionaress, who, for a brief but poignant moment, was retained as the Reichls' maid. Then we are introduced to Monsieur du Croix, the gourmand, who so understood and yet was awed by this prodigious child at his dinner table that when he introduced Ruth to the soufflé, he could o

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Random House Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0679449876
• ISBN 13: 9780679449874
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 282
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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