Save Me the Plums - Ruth Reichl

Save Me the Plums

By Ruth Reichl

  • Release Date: 2019-04-02
  • Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
4.5 Score: 4.5 (From 318 Ratings)

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A delicious insider account of the gritty, glamorous world of food culture.”—Vanity Fair

In this “poignant and hilarious” (The New York Times Book Review) memoir, trailblazing food writer and beloved restaurant critic Ruth Reichl chronicles her groundbreaking tenure as editor in chief of Gourmet.

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Real Simple, Good Housekeeping, Town & Country

When Condé Nast offered Ruth Reichl the top position at America’s oldest epicurean magazine, she declined. She was a writer, not a manager, and had no inclination to be anyone’s boss. Yet Reichl had been reading Gourmet since she was eight; it had inspired her career. How could she say no?

This is the story of a former Berkeley hippie entering the corporate world and worrying about losing her soul. It is the story of the moment restaurants became an important part of popular culture, a time when the rise of the farm-to-table movement changed, forever, the way we eat. Readers will meet legendary chefs like David Chang and Eric Ripert, idiosyncratic writers like David Foster Wallace, and a colorful group of editors and art directors who, under Reichl’s leadership, transformed stately Gourmet into a cutting-edge publication. This was the golden age of print media—the last spendthrift gasp before the Internet turned the magazine world upside down.

Complete with recipes, Save Me the Plums is a personal journey of a woman coming to terms with being in charge and making a mark, following a passion and holding on to her dreams—even when she ends up in a place she never expected to be.

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  • Save me the plums

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    By ap6500
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    By Brooklynbookworm
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  • Loved it!

    5
    By EnglishMajorProblems
    It’s a great book about a food magazine but not about a food magazine. Loved the inside look at Ruth’s journey, her triumphs and struggles. Could have done without the recipes, but I still liked reading them :)
  • Save Me the Plums

    5
    By Joanabake
    I love the fact that Ruth always kept her sense of ordinariness, that she was always real in a world that often takes itself overly seriously. As the retired owner of a small restaurant, lifelong world traveler and hopeless fan of Gourmet magazine, the book was a delicious read.

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