Ruth Reichl

Author: Ruth Reichl, is the Editor in Chief of Gourmet Magazine. Ruth Reichl joined Gourmet as Editor in Chief in April 1999. Reichl began writing about food in 1972, when she published Mmmmm: A Feastiary. Since then, she has authored the critically acclaimed, best-selling memoirs Tender at the Bone, ... (more)Comfort Me With Apples, and Garlic and Sapphires, which have been translated into fourteen languages. She is the editor of The Modern Library Food Series, which currently includes ten books. She has also written the introductions for Nancy Silverton´s Breads from the La Brea Bakery: Recipes for the Connoisseur (1996) and Measure of Her Powers: An M.F.K. Fisher Reader (2000). She is featured on the cover of Dining Out: Secrets from America´s Leading Critics, Chefs and Restaurants, by Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page (1998). She is the editor of Endless Feasts: Sixty Years of Writing from Gourmet, Remembrance of Things Paris: Sixty Years of Writing from Gourmet, and The Gourmet Cookbook, released September 2004. Her lecture, "Why Food Matters," delivered in October 2005, will be published in The Tanner Lectures On Human Values, Volume 28, in 2006. History in a Glass: Sixty Years of Wine Writing from Gourmet (Modern Library), which she also edited, will be published in March of 2006. Ms. Reichl hosted "Eating Out Loud," three specials on Food Network, covering New York (2002), San Francisco (2003), and Miami (2003). She is a regular host with Leonard Lopate for a live monthly food show on WNYC radio in New York. Reichl has been honored with four James Beard Awards (two for restaurant criticism, in 1996 and 1998; one for journalism, in 1994; and Who´s Who of Food and Beverage in America, 1984) and with numerous awards from the Association of American Food Journalists. She is also the recipient of the YWCA´s Elizabeth Cutter Morrow Award. She holds a B.A. and an M.A. in the History of Art from the University of Michigan, and lives in New York City with her husband, Michael Singer, a television news producer, and their son. Title: Gourmet Today: More Than 1000 All-New Recipes for the Contemporary Kitchen , $40.00 Hardcover, ISBN 9780618610181, On Sale Date: September 1, 2009. An Author Autographed Gourmet Today Cookbook will make a great gift!
What: Ruth Reichl will talk about her New Cookbook, her life, her work, answer audience questions and she will autograph copies of her New Cookbook purchased from Rainy Day Books, on our website and / or at our Author Event.
When: Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 6:30 PM, Dinner
Where: A Rainy Day Books Author Event at Starker's Restaurant, 201 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112. Reservations: Call Starker's Restaurant at 816-753-3565.
Reservations: Call Starker's Restaurant at 816-753-3565. $125.00 Per Person plus Tax and Gratuity, includes from Rainy Day Books One (1) Autographed Gourmet Today (Hardcover), One (1) subscription to Gourmet Magazine and includes from Starker's Restaurant, One (1) Five-Course Dinner with Wines. Book Orders can be shipped worldwide. All Author Event Book Sales are Final and Non-Returnable.

The former restaurant critic and now the editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine, discusses and signs her book. 202-364-1919.