44 Ruth Reichl Quotes for You to Enjoy

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Laos is a country where everything is eaten. When I came back, I would find myself chopping parsley and thinking: 'Why am I throwing these stems away? They're perfectly edible.' Ruth Reichl

Myself Country Thinking Back Everything Would Find Eaten Throwing Stems Perfectly Edible Am Came Where Chopping Why Away

My idea of good living is not about eating high on the hog. Rather, to me, good living means understanding how food connects us to the earth. Ruth Reichl

Good Food Me Understanding Living Good Living Earth High Eating About Rather Idea How Hog Us Means Connects

I wanted to figure out a way of living where I didn't have to be in an office every day. Ruth Reichl

Day Every Day Living Every Way Out Office Where Wanted Figure

My mother's father was a doctor, and she desperately wanted to be a doctor. Ruth Reichl

Doctor Mother Father Desperately She Wanted

What was so extraordinary to me about going through this box of my mother's letters and diaries was meeting my mother not as my mother, but as a real person. And what breaks my heart is that I had no idea how self-aware she was and how protective of me she was. Ruth Reichl

When you're a restaurant critic, you're not home at night, so breakfast became really important for us. Ruth Reichl

Home You Important Breakfast Critic Restaurant Became Us Really Night

I think that reading is always active. As a writer, you can only go so far; the reader meets you halfway, bringing his or her own experience to bear on everything you've written. What I mean is that it is not only the writer's memory that filters experience, but the reader's as well. Ruth Reichl

You Memory Experience Reading Own Active Think Filters Meets Everything Only Bear Writer Written Well Reader Halfway Always Go His Mean Far Her Bringing

There is an almost anti-epicurean tradition at the very base of America. For much of the middle part of American history, people who wanted to overcome that went to France. Ruth Reichl

History People Overcome France Part Almost Tradition Very America American Middle Wanted American History Much Who Base

One of the effects of cheap food is, we have food that is so unsatisfactory. We need to go back to flavor. Ruth Reichl

Food Back Cheap Go Effects Flavor Need

I don't care what a lot of anonymous strangers think about restaurants. Ruth Reichl

Care Strangers Think Restaurants About Anonymous Lot

Some magazines are run from the top down, where the editor-in-chief decides what every article is going to be and who's going to write them, and then they're doled out. My idea is to do it the opposite way, to do it from the bottom up. Ruth Reichl

Down Every Top Way Out Run Some Magazines Write Bottom Idea Opposite Up Article Going Where Decide Them Then

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