Title: Comfort Me With Apples
Author: Ruth Reichl
Ruth Reichl's Comfort Me With Apples is the second book in her series of three memoirs about her life as a chef, restaurant critic, and champion eater. I've already read Tender at the Bone and On Garlic and Sapphires and loved both of them. They're touching and hysterical and always make me enormously hungry.
I liked Comfort Me With Apples but I found it the least interesting of the three books. I think it's important chapter in her life, briding the career of food enthusiast/chef (from the first book) and celebrated restaurant critic (in the third book), but this chapter of her life seemed a little bit more focused on finding out who Ruth Reichl is, and the food seemed secondary. I'm not one to turn away from celebrity gossip or reading about romance, but the book seemed pretty focused on those two topics (she was living in LA at the time, in her defense). Anyway, there's enough food writing to keep a hungry reader going, but if you're going to taste Ruth Reichl for the first time, I'd recommend starting with one of her two other books.
--originally published 9/27/06
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