Garlic and Sapphires : The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise Paperback - 2006
by Reichl, Ruth
- Used
In this "New York Times" bestseller, beloved food writer Reichl, an unlikely master of disguise, presents her adventures in restaurant reviewing for "The New York Times."
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- Title Garlic and Sapphires : The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
- Author Reichl, Ruth
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, New York
- Date 2006-03-28
- Features Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 3129377-6
- ISBN 9780143036616 / 0143036610
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.8 in (21.34 x 13.72 x 2.03 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Cookery, Reichl, Ruth
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Summary
Ruth Reichl’s bestselling memoir of her time as an undercover restaurant critic for The New York Times
Ruth Reichl, world-renowned food critic and former editor in chief of Gourmet magazine, knows a thing or two about food. She also knows that as the most important food critic in the country, you need to be anonymous when reviewing some of the most high-profile establishments in the biggest restaurant town in the worlda charge she took very seriously, taking on the guise of a series of eccentric personalities. In Garlic and Sapphires, Reichl reveals the comic absurdity, artifice, and excellence to be found in the sumptuously appointed stages of the epicurean world and gives usalong with some of her favorite recipes and reviewsher remarkable reflections on how one’s outer appearance can influence one’s inner character, expectations, and appetites, not to mention the quality of service one receives.
As a memento of her time at the Times she gives us this wonderful book, which is funnyat times laugh-out-loud funnyand smart and wise.” Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post
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- New Yorker (The), 04/23/2006, Page 28
- Time, 04/10/2006, Page 81