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Ruth Reichl Quotes
Ruth Reichl
American
Chef
Born:
Jan 16
,
1948
About
Food
Me
People
Think
You
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One of mom's greatest acts of generosity was that she trained me to be defiant. Her great gift to me was encouraging me to be the person that I wanted to be, not the one that she and my father wished I was.
Ruth Reichl
Mom
Great
Me
Gift
Father
Great Gift
Generosity
Wished
She
Greatest
Encouraging
Trained
Person
Wanted
Acts
Her
My kitchen was built for my body. It forms a 'U' in the middle of the living room and dining room. It's not huge, because I don't like huge kitchens.
Ruth Reichl
Living
Dining
Dining Room
Kitchen
Kitchens
Like
Because
Built
Huge
Middle
Forms
Room
Body
Living Room
The thing I like most in my kitchen is my marble counters. Everybody said not to use marble because it's fragile, it stains, it cracks, and it doesn't remain beautiful. But I love marble.
Ruth Reichl
Love
Beautiful
Everybody
Kitchen
Remain
Like
Most
Because
Said
Cracks
Use
Marble
Thing
Fragile
What I learned is that how we present ourselves to the world is really how we get treated. So if you want to be treated really well in a restaurant, you really have to dress up. You cannot just show up.
Ruth Reichl
You
World
Ourselves
Restaurant
Dress
Dress-Up
Well
Learned
How
Up
Get
Just
Want
Cannot
Really
Show
Present
Treated
The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness.
Ruth Reichl
Happiness
Life
Joy
Secret
Finding
Ordinary
Interested
Ordinary Things
Things
M. F. K. Fisher was a wonder and a huge influence, and someone I got to know pretty well at the end of her life.
Ruth Reichl
Life
Pretty
Someone
Know
Well
Got
Fisher
Huge
End
Wonder
Huge Influence
Influence
Her
I don't have my own garden; we're on shale and in the woods. And if I did have a garden, the deer and chipmunks and squirrels and bears would eat everything anyway.
Ruth Reichl
Garden
Own
Everything
Would
Eat
My Own
Bears
Did
Squirrels
Woods
Anyway
Deer
If you really taste a doughnut, it's pretty disgusting. They taste of grease.
Ruth Reichl
You
Pretty
Taste
Disgusting
Really
Doughnut
Grease
Writing about food is my default.
Ruth Reichl
Food
Writing
About
Default
I meet people, and we can get past small talk pretty quickly if they've read my books. It's a great shortcut.
Ruth Reichl
Great
People
Past
Meet
Books
Pretty
Small
Small Talk
Talk
Read
Quickly
Get
Shortcut
What does happen in 'Gourmet,' we had eight test kitchens, and at any given time, there were, like, ten or twelve test cooks. And whenever anybody finished something, they would yell, 'Taste!' and everyone would go running towards it, and then taste, and then brutally deconstruct the dish.
Ruth Reichl
Time
Finished
Everyone
Would
Running
Something
Ten
Given
Kitchens
Brutally
Had
Towards
Like
Does
Gourmet
Test
Go
Were
Yell
Taste
Any
Any Given Time
Anybody
Whenever
Eight
Dish
Happen
Then
Cooks
Twelve
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 loved being at the 'Times,' and they were incredibly good to me. I think it's a wonderful paper, and I was really well edited.
Ruth Reichl
Good
Me
Wonderful
Think
Incredibly
Paper
Well
Edited
Were
Times
Being
Loved
Really
I think it's hard, when you're someone who likes to please people, as I am, to be a boss. I had to learn how to rein myself in and not terrify people.
Ruth Reichl
Myself
You
People
Think
Please
Someone
Boss
Had
Likes
Learn
Terrify
How
Am
Hard
Who
Rein
The hardest part of cooking is shopping, and if you organize yourself and shop once a week, you're halfway there.
Ruth Reichl
You
Cooking
Yourself
Shopping
Once
Once A Week
Week
Part
Halfway
Shop
Organize
Hardest
Hardest Part
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
Me
Heart
Mother
Extraordinary
Meeting
No Idea
About
Through
Had
Idea
She
Protective
Box
How
Real
Diaries
Person
Real Person
Going
Breaks
Letters
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 was in Berkeley when the food energy in America was in Berkeley. Then it moved to Los Angeles, and I went to Los Angeles. It moved to New York, and I went there.
Ruth Reichl
Food
Energy
Berkeley
Angeles
New
Los
Los Angeles
America
York
Moved
New York
Then
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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