Ruth Reichl Quotes
I like poached eggs, but I'll make scrambled or fried or whatever anybody wants.
Each generation believes that technology and modernization is overtaking their way of life and forcing change upon them. In 1938, the very success of consumerism—that people have choices they never had before—placed stress on some people who had grown up making very few decisions as there was only one way to do almost everything. In the late 20th century having 500 television channels and thousands of more entertainment and educational possibilities with the Internet was a source of great stress for an entire generation of people who for most of their lives chose from the three major networks for their entertainment.
Ruth Reichl, is an American chef, food writer, co-producer of PBS's Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie, culinary editor for the Modern Library, host of PBS's Gourmet's Adventures With Ruth, and the last editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine. She has written critically acclaimed, best-selling memoirs: Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table, Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table, Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise and Not Becoming My Mother. In 2009, she published Gourmet Today a 1,008 page cookbook containing over 1,000 recipes. She published her first novel, Delicious! in 2014, and, in 2015, published My Kitchen Year: 136 Recipes That Saved My Life, a memoir of recipes prepared in the year following the shuttering of Gourmet.
