Ruth Reichl (born January 16, 1948 in New York City) is an American food writer, the editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine, co-producer of PBS's Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie, and culinary editor for the Modern Library. Events 27 BC - The title Augustus is bestowed upon Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian by the Roman Senate. Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The City of New York The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Gourmet magazine is a monthly publication of Condé Nast Publications (which also produces its sister publication Bon Appétit) The Modern Library, a current division of Random House Publishers was founded in 1917 by Albert Boni and Horace Liveright. She has written three books of memoirs: Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table, Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table, and Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise.
Born to parents Ernst and Miriam (née Brudno), she was raised in New York City and spent time at a boarding school in Montreal. Montreal, or Montréal in French ( pronounced in French, in English) is the largest city in the Canadian province of Quebec She attended the University of Michigan, where she met her first husband, the artist Douglas Hollis. The University of Michigan Ann Arbor ( U of M, U-M, UM or simply Michigan) is a top-ranked Coeducational public research She graduated in 1970 with a M. A. in art history.
She and Hollis moved to Berkeley, California, where her interest in food led to her joining the collectively-owned Swallow Restaurant as a chef/co-owner from 1973 to 1977. Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in Northern California, in the United States. She moved on to become food writer and editor of New West magazine from 1973 to 1977, then to the Los Angeles Times as its restaurant editor from 1984 to 1993 and food editor and critic from 1990 to 1993. The Los Angeles Times (also known as the LA Times) is a daily Newspaper published in Los Angeles California and distributed She returned to her native New York City in 1993 to become the restaurant critic for the New York Times before leaving to assume the editorship of Gourmet in 1999. The terms food critic, food writer, and restaurant critic can all be used to describe a Writer who analyzes food or Restaurants and then publishes
She is currently married to Michael Singer, a CBS television news producer and documentary filmmaker. They have one son, Nick, born in 1989.
Books
- Mmmmm: A Feastiary (cookbook), (1972)
- Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table (1998)
- Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table (2001)
- Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise (2005)
External links
- An eG Spotlight with Ruth Reichl (December 2005)
- Princeton Public Lecture Series Appearance (streaming media) - March 6, 2007 - "Watch What You Eat-A History of Eating"
- Salon interview (November 1996)
- ruthreichl.com
- PBS Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie
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