About this title: The second volume of Ruth Reichl's autobiography takes her into adulthood, and chronicles her romantic life as well as her evolution into a food critic. It includes accounts of the memorable food that accompanied memorable moments in her life, including her days in a Berkeley commune, her second husband's favorite chocolate cake, and a trip to China with her father. Recipes are included.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Century
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780712617956ISBN:0712617957
Description: Ex-Library Published by Century in 2002. Binding: Hardback without Dust jacket. Number of pages: 320. Ex. Library copy-usual stamps and marks. Condition: Good. Used book but in Good Condition for sensible price. Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Audiobook Cassette
Publisher: Random House Audio
ISBN-13:9780375417238ISBN:0375417230
Description: Fair. 0375417230 Four audiocassettes in plastic case. Ex-library with stickers, pocket and markings. Some wear to case. Cassettes in good condition. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780965193771ISBN:0965193772
Description: Very Good+ 0965193772. 13 oz.; 302 pages; VG+ PB Unread as new except slight soiling back cover 2001. More adventures at the table by the author of Tender at the Bone. read more
Description: Gently used softcover. Very Good. Front cover has crease at bottom outer edge. Textblock is clean throughout. Unmarked. No dog ears, no remainder mark. ISBN 0965193772. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780783895949ISBN:0783895941
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Century
Date Published: 06/06/2002
ISBN-13:9780712617956ISBN:0712617957
Description: Used-Good. Book in good or better condition. Dispatched same day from warehouse. Please email with any questions for quick response. read more
Binding: Audio Book
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 2001
Description: Very Good. Tapes fine-box vg but with lib stickers-4 tapes-abridged-6 hours-ead by author-The second volume of Ruth Reichl's autobiography takes her into adulthood, and chronicles her romantic life as well as her evolution into a food critic. It includes accounts of the memorable food that accompanied memorable moments in her life, including her days in a Berkeley commune, her second husband's favorite chocolate cake, and a trip to China with her father. Recipes are included. read more
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Ex-library. Ex-Library book-on-tape with stickers and stampings. Clamshell has some typical wear. 8 cassettes. read more
Binding: Audiobook CASSETTE
Publisher: Random House Audio
ISBN-13:9780375417238ISBN:0375417230
Description: Good. 0375417230 THIS IS AN UNABRIDGED EX-LIBRARY AUDIO BOOK. THE BOOK IS 9.5 HOURS LONG AND IS READ BY LORELEI KING. THE CASSETTES PLAY FINE AND THE CASE IS FINE. read more
Binding: Audio Cassette
Publisher: Random House Audio
Date Published: 2001-04-10
ISBN-13:9780375417238ISBN:0375417230
Description: Good. Excellent customer service. May ship from alternate location depending on your zip code and availability. Satisfaction guaranteed! ! read more
Binding: Audio Cassette
Publisher: Random House, Westminster, Maryland, U.S. A
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780375417238ISBN:0375417230
Description: Very Good. No Jacket Issued. Complete on 4 cassettes, each in a plastic case, lacking the box that once held them all. Read by Ruth Teichl. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 2001-01-01
ISBN-13:9780965193771ISBN:0965193772
Description: Good. Excellent customer service. May ship from alternate location depending on your zip code and availability. Satisfaction guaranteed! ! read more
"Comfort Me with Apples, a line taken from Proverbs, is a fitting name for a food book; however, not sure I saw where the comfort food came in so much in this book. But cooking does tend to ground the author and I could identify much with her reasons for cooking what she was cooking when she was cooking and why she was cooking it.
Love Ruth Reichl as a writer and as a cookbook author of sorts. Since I read the third book first followed by her first and now this one last it was intriguing to finally unhearth (and a relief to learn) why she wasn't any longer with the love of her life, Doug.
Enjoyed her writings, especially in this one on her travels to Barcelona and to Bangkok. You definitely do a good armchair travel with her. I felt like I was there right along tasting what she was tasting, and experiencing the foreign markets. And you still are just as fascinated with her manic mother and down-to-earth father in this book as in the others. You get to know her mother so well, you can almost predict how she's going to behave at any given moment.
Well written and fun to read. Will work through the menus. Might skip the calf brains, but then again, might not."
"For the first chapter, the tone of this memoir annoyed me: too pat, and too much dialogue, which I find a tricksy thing in nonfiction, too distracting, or jarring, or false-seeming, or maybe it's just that I think it could be better described than reproduced.
That said, I was won over by the time I got to the end of chapter three, the heady story of an affair that includes things like this: "He liked to start the day by strolling through the flower market and listening to the birds. Every morning he woke me with fresh flowers. Then he took me to Ladurée for coffee and croissants and we sat there, beneath the ancient paintings of nymphs and angels, bantering with the waitresses in their black dresses and white aprons" (40). And this: "Colman raised his glass and suddenly I saw, through the bubbles, Notre Dame flooded with silvery light just across the Seine" (42). And this: "The scrambled eggs with truffles were even better than the foie gras. Minutes earlier I would not have thought it possible. Each forkful was like biting off a piece of the sun. It was like musk and light, all at once, and suddenly I burst out, 'This is what I always imagined sex would taste like.'" (42). The food writing in this book is great, and so is the love, and the hope, and the figuring-things-out bit by bit."
"This is a memoir of a food critic! It is personal and funny and sheds an unflattering light on the gourmet restaurant scene. I found it delightful... a good summer read with some darker undertones. The recipes at the end of each chapter look delicious and fattening or are those the same thing? A friend tried the cheesecake and it was superb. The author is caustic, observant and obsessed with good food which she describes in what only can be called a "mouthwatering way". After reading this, I got the others she wrote as well and enjoyed them all."
"Los Angeles restaurant critic eats amazing meals and engages in passionate extra-marital affairs. Stuff that all women love to read about. Reichl doesn't seem to examine her motives too closely -- or maybe that was in the bit that was edited out to create the abridged version that I listened to. The author reads her own work. Why is it that authors tend to dispassionate readings of their own writing? Is it because they conceive of their writing as marks on a page rather than spoken words? Or do they think that you should supply the emotions yourself? Even poets are guilty of this at times."
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