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Ruth Reichl
American
Chef
Born:
Jan 16
,
1948
About
Food
Me
People
Think
You
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I came from a family where, you know, we sat down at the table every night, and you better have a story to tell. My father never wrote his stories down. And you know, I learned that they went farther if you wrote them down.
Ruth Reichl
Family
You
Better
Father
Down
Every
Tell
Table
Never
Know
Wrote
Learned
Came
His
Where
Stories
Story
Them
Farther
Sat
Every Night
Night
Let's face it: my life tends to revolve around food, and I love feeding people.
Ruth Reichl
Life
Love
Food
People
Face
My Life
Tends
Feeding
Around
Revolve
I like poached eggs, but I'll make scrambled or fried or whatever anybody wants.
Ruth Reichl
Whatever
Like
Make
Fried
Eggs
Scrambled
Anybody
Wants
If you're going to tell stuff, you might as well tell the real stuff.
Ruth Reichl
You
Tell
Stuff
Well
Real
Going
Might
'Comfort Me with Apples' is a love story, or better, two love stories. And since it deals with a later period in my life, most of the people who appear in it are living.
Ruth Reichl
Life
Love
Me
People
Better
My Life
Love Story
Living
Later
Since
Most
Period
Comfort
Deals
Love Stories
Stories
Story
Who
Appear
Apples
Two
Reading an audio book is a very odd experience because there are three people sitting out there while you're reading in this glass booth, and you can see their reactions.
Ruth Reichl
You
Experience
Book
People
Three
Reading
Booth
Out
See
Glass
Reactions
Because
Audio
Odd
Very
Sitting
While
I couldn't live without butter. Butter is probably my single favourite food.
Ruth Reichl
Food
Single
Live
Favourite
Without
Butter
I'm a home cook, and I'm constantly embarrassed by twentysomethings who really do know the mechanics of cooking. How to build a sauce.
Ruth Reichl
Home
Cooking
Build
Embarrassed
Constantly
Know
How
Really
Cook
Who
Mechanics
Sauce
When I ate slowly and deliberately, giving myself time to consider whether I actually wanted that next bite, I often discovered that I didn't.
Ruth Reichl
Time
Myself
Giving
Consider
Bite
Ate
Slowly
Deliberately
Discovered
Often
Wanted
Whether
Next
Actually
If you start with a great peach, there's nothing you're ever going to do that's going to make it any better than when it comes off the tree. In 1970, that was a revolution.
Ruth Reichl
Great
You
Better
Revolution
Nothing
Tree
Make
Off
Than
Any
Going
Ever
Peach
Start
What I always do in times of trouble or stress is to try and do something I don't know how to do.
Ruth Reichl
Try
Stress
Trouble
Something
Know
Always
How
Times
I'm convinced that the main reason we've become so obsessed with restaurants is due to our basic need to get out of virtual space and into a real one. We're not going out to eat merely to share food; we're there to sit at the same table together, slow down, breathe the same air.
Ruth Reichl
Food
Together
Space
Slow
Become
Sit
Down
Virtual
Our
Air
Out
Restaurants
Table
Eat
Main
Share
Main Reason
Merely
Obsessed
Real
Due
Get
Same
Going
Breathe
Convinced
Reason
Basic
Need
It was through cooking food and sharing it with each other that our ancestors learned how to become social animals.
Ruth Reichl
Food
Cooking
Animals
Become
Other
Our
Ancestors
Through
Sharing
Learned
How
Social
Each
Don't make a big to-do about the turkey; brine it, put it in the oven, and don't think about it again.
Ruth Reichl
Big
Think
About
Put
Oven
Make
Again
Turkey
For me, cooking is a way to try and please people and tell them I love them. When I fall in love with someone, I want to feed them as well.
Ruth Reichl
Love
Me
Cooking
People
Try
Fall
Please
Way
Tell
Someone
Feed
Well
Want
Them
If you go back in American history, oysters were the food of poor people. New York was filled with oyster saloons in the 1800s.
Ruth Reichl
Food
History
You
People
Back
New
Go
Were
American
York
New York
American History
Poor
Poor People
Filled
There is that romanticized idea of what a bookstore can be, what a library can be, what a shop can be. And to me, they are that. These are places that open doors into other worlds if only you're open to them.
Ruth Reichl
Me
You
Library
Doors
Other
Worlds
Bookstore
Only
Open
Open Doors
Idea
Shop
Places
Them
If we make it national policy that we will support small farmers the way we support agribusiness, we'll suddenly see it change in terms of the cost of organic food.
Ruth Reichl
Food
Change
Will
National
Organic
Way
See
Cost
Small
Support
Terms
Make
Policy
National Policy
Organic Food
Farmers
Suddenly
I like to work. I believe that work helps us find our self worth.
Ruth Reichl
Work
Worth
Believe
Our
Find
Self
Like
Self-Worth
Us
Helps
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