Blogs in May 2024

The Paris Novel 16th May 2024

The last word anyone would use to describe Stella St. Vincent is adventurous. She’s perfectly comfortable with the familiar, strict routines of her life as a copyeditor in New York. Or at least, she is until she receives a...

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Save Me the Plums 6th June 2020

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...

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Comfort Me With Apples 6th June 2020

In this delightful sequel to her bestseller ‘Tender at the Bone’, the beloved food writer Ruth Reichl returns with more tales full of love, life, humour and marvellous meals. Ruth Reichl’s pursuit of good food and good company leads...

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Tender at the Bone 6th June 2020

At an early age, Ruth Reichl discovered that ‘food could be a way of making sense of the world. If you watched people as they ate, you could find out who they were.’ Her deliciously crafted memoir, Tender at...

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Garlic and Sapphires 6th June 2020

Garlic and Sapphires is Ruth Reichl’s riotous account of the many disguises she employs to dine undetected when she takes on the much coveted and highly prestigious job of New York Times restaurant critic. Reichl knows that to be...

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