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Loading... Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguiseby Ruth Reichl
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. extremely entertaining and surprisingly moving in places. mochap | Jul 2, 2009 |   Ruth Reichl's writes a wonderful, humorous, refreshing account of her years as the New York Times Food Critic. She often dined incognito, so as to guarantee that no special treatment would occur during her dining experience. Reichl sought out the small ethnic restaurants that previous NYT Critics ignored. The book exposed how many restaurants give inferior service and attention to customers based on appearance. The book includes her original NYT restaurant reviews and several recipes. (  )Indy_115 | May 6, 2009 | Ruth Reichl has a way with words when it comes to describing food. Practially the whole time I was reading this book I was hungry. And a bit jealous. I love to eat and what a wonderful life it must be to eat for a living at the finest restaurants. Anyway, this is an interesting book both about the food and about the life of a critic. Ms. Reichl writes well and keeps the pace up. She's a good story teller and she has some funny and sad stories to tell. What I found especially interesting and sad is the stories she tells about the Window on the World restaurant at the World Trade Center. It was sort of eerie to read a story about an ordinary evening there, knowing that in a few years after the time she is writing about the towers would fall and people would die at that restaurant. What I particularly admired about this book is that Ms. Reichl does not try to make herself look like a saint. She shows multiple sides of her personality and seems to easily tell stories about herself that are not particularly flattering to her. She seems quite human in this book and that adds an extra layer of appeal to this book, and I might add the same is true of her other two books. If you enjoy food and wonder what it might be like to eat at all the best places as a an actual job, you'll enjoy this book. I myself had to go have Chinese food when I finished this book. And I found myself really trying to experience the food the way Ms. Reichl writes about experiencing food. It was a wonderful experience. (  )drsyko | Apr 26, 2009 | This book was given to me by a friend, and it remained in my 'To Read' stack before I finally picked it up. I really enjoy memoirs, and this fascinating insight into the life of well-known food critic did not disappoint. I'm a lover of fine dining and unique restaurants, and her writing really made the food leap off the page (or maybe it's just that I'm pregnant and ALL food sounds good??). Even sashimi and foie gras, two dishes that I don't particularly enjoy, sounded fantastic! Her quest to remain anonymous in NYC's many restaurants was extremely interesting, not only in her process to create disguises, but how these characters affected her personality and changed the way she was regarded. Reichl also included personal recipes, a nice addition, in every chapter, and there are a couple that I just might try. Garlic and Sapphires is a fun journey that I'd recommend to anyone who enjoys food writing or memoirs in general. (  )kticesk8s | Apr 18, 2009 | 1  Garlic and Sapphires is a memoir about Ruth Reichl's time as a food critic at the New York Times. The book gives a fascinating look into the New York Food scene. Reich's descriptions of food are always fantastic, you can practically see and taste the food through the pages. The book was funny and personal, chronicling the multiple disguises Reichl used to visit restaurants incognito and the way her job affects her family life. ( )aubreyrose | Feb 12, 2009 | 1 0.090 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0143036610, Paperback)Fans of Tender at the Bone and Comfort Me with Apples know that Ruth Reichl is a wonderful memoirist--a funny, poignant, and candid storyteller whose books contain a happy mix of memories, recipes, and personal revelations.
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