Ruth Reichl is different from you and me.
We taste salty, sweet, sour, bitter. She tastes revelation. “Each forkful was like biting off a piece of the sun,” she writes of the scrambled eggs with truffles she ate in Paris more than twenty years ago. Hers are taste buds gifted with memory, eloquence, and a strong democratic bent. Now the editor of Gourmet magazine, Reichl was once a counter-culture hippie, living in a Berkeley commune and trying to reconcile her anti-establishment ideals with her passion for food and writing about it.
As eyewitness to America’s culinary revolution, Reichl also embodied its spirit: celebrating simple pleasures and honest food, and making it safe for the average diner to claim a top table of their own. She was the people’s critic, and she’s our guest.
(Hosted by David Ropeik)
Guests:
Ruth Reichl and Colman Andrews, editor and co-founder, Saveur