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: Random House USA Inc
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780375501951ISBN:0375501959
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 2001-04-10
ISBN-13:9780375501951ISBN:0375501959
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780375501951ISBN:0375501959
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN-13:9780375758737ISBN:0375758739
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"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."
"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."
"This book was fun to read because it was all about good food, and all aspects of it: cooking, eating, writing about it. The descriptions were evocative enough that you felt you were at some of these meals. Made me wonder, though, how on earth these foodies weren't huge! And whether beeing a food/wine editor or critic was just a way to support one's gourmand tastes and lifestyle.
It was also about relationships, namely Ruth's crumbling marriage and her two affairs. I was actually a little appalled that she would be so frank in such a public way. I hear she has a new book out about her relationship with her mother. I imagine that may also make the reader feel like we know too much about Ruth's personal life."
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