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Ruth Reichl

Ruth Reichl ( ; born 1948) is an American chef, food writer and editor. In addition to two decades as a food critic, mainly spent at the ''Los Angeles Times'' and ''The New York Times'', Reichl has also written cookbooks, memoirs and a novel, and has been co-producer of PBS's ''Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie'', culinary editor for the Modern Library, host of PBS's ''Gourmet's Adventures With Ruth'', and editor-in-chief of ''Gourmet'' magazine. She has won six James Beard Foundation Awards.

Reichl's memoirs are ''Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table'' (1998), ''Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table'', ''Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise,'' ''Not Becoming My Mother'', and ''Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir'' (2019). In 2009, she published ''Gourmet Today'', a 1,008 page cookbook containing over 1,000 recipes. She published her first novel, ''Delicious!'' in 2014, and, in 2015, published ''My Kitchen Year: 136 Recipes That Saved My Life'', a memoir of recipes prepared in the year following the shuttering of ''Gourmet''. Provided by Wikipedia