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Feast Of Words

Ruth Reichl speaks on her latest book, a compilation of columns
for "Gourmet" magazine, and reflects on life as a food writer.

took a decade and found what we liked
best and then traded off piles of Xeroxed
copies. We sometimes argued ferociously
[about our preferences]."
uth Reichl grew up in a
While the book does include some
home where ham was served
recipes,
most of the nearly 50 pieces
at breakfast every day.
touch
upon
personal experiences associ-
Eventually, her brother left
ated
with
food
preparation and eating
the ham behind and opened the first
- distant cultures, luxurious settings
pizza restaurant in Israel, while she
and gut reactions.
developed a passion for variety cooking,
"The Marrowbone Matter" by
tracked exotic eating experiences and
Kenneth Roberts, for example, briefly
communicated her finds through her
explains Jewish delicacies served on
writing.
Sabbath.1, Bon Vivant, Who, Me?" by
Reichl, who has opened her food
George Plimpton gets into
adventures to others
celebrity entertaining.
through newspaper and
Other contributors include
magazine articles, now
Jane and Michael Stern,
serves as editor-in-chief of
James Beard, E. Annie
Gourmet magazine. She is
Proulx, Claudia Roden
touring the country to
and M.F.K. Fisher.
introduce Endless Feasts
Reichl, former restau
(Modern Library;
rant
critic for the Los
$24.95), a book that cele-
Angeles Times and the New
brates the 60th anniver-
York Times, brings a
sary of the periodical by
focused approach to her
offering some vintage arti-
work.
cles.
-MAW, 'LW4c42
"I felt that my job was
The editor will be one
not
to write consumer
of four speakers at the
A former food writer for
guides
for all the people
Metro Detroit Book and
the New York Times,
who
were
going to spend
Author Society luncheon
Ruth Reichl currently
fortunes at restaurants but
planned for May 20 at the serves as editor of
actually to write for the
Burton Manor in Livonia. "Gourmet" magazine.
people who weren't gbing
She will discuss the com-
to the restaurants,"
memorative anthology
explains
Reichl.
along with the second installment of her
"I wanted to take the readers along
autobiography, Comfort Me With Apples
with me and try to make them feel they
(Random House; $13.95), just released
were at the table, largely because I came
in paperback.
out of a place of not having had very
Also on the program, coincidentally
much money and feeling very privileged
the 60th sponsored by the society, are
to be able to go to restaurants on some-
novelist Ann Patchett (Bel Canto), mys-
body else's money.
tery writer Gregory McDonald (the
"At the point I arrived [on the dining-
"Fletch" series) and short-story author
out
scene], it was really about European-
(Birdbaths
and
Paper
Sharon Randall
modeled restaurants, and I tried to bring
Cranes).
a passion for other cuisines - Japanese,
Korean, Chinese, Thai, Mexican. I
The Best Of 'Gourmet'
brought these places into serious reviews.
"I tend to speak off the cuff" says
Up until then, they had been largely rel-
Reichl, whose knowledge of fine dining
egated to the cheap-eats columns."
came in part from waitressing at a posh
Ann Arbor restaurant while attending
Personal Stories
the University of Michigan. "I easily can
'Reichrs.
first book, Tender at the Bone,
talk about what a great pleasure it was to
includes
her years in Ann Arbor, where
go through the magazine and discover
she
lived
in a co-op and planned menus
all of its extraordinary writers.
for 100 people before earning an under-
"It took a group of us about a year to
graduate degree in sociology
decide on the final selections. We each
t,. and a mas-

SUZANNE CHESSLER
Special to the Jewish News

ter's in the history of art.

Comfort Me With Apples follows up
with the development of her career as a
restaurant critic and includes the intima-
cies of her two marriages, an affair with
an editor, a failed adoption and the birth
of her son.
It also tells about her experiences with
cooking-enthralled celebrities, such as
restaurateur Wolfgang Puck and at-
home chef Danny Kaye.
"Writing a memoir is sitting down
and wrestling with yourself," says Reichl,
who is working on the third installment,
which will cover her years at the New

York Times.
"With the first book, I sent copies to .
the people [I wrote about] before it went
to print. For the second, I told people I
was doing it and asked if they wanted
me to change their names.
"The strongest feedback that I got was
from Colman Andrews (editor of Saveur
magazine and her former lover). He said
I could go ahead and use his name but
later [remarked that] I had been unflat-
tering in ways he had not imagined.
Barbara Lazaroff, Wolfgang Puck's
wife, said she was not speaking to me
after she read the chapter about her, but

'Finding God'

abbi Daniel Syme, spiritual
leader of Temple Beth El in
Bloomfield Hills, likes to
think of himself as open to new -
ideas, and that's one reason he
wanted to revise Finding God
(UAHC Press; $12), an exploration
of philosophies about faith and
worship.
The book, written with Rabbi
Rifat Sonsino of Temple Beth
Shalom in Needham, Mass., was
first pliblished in 1989 and includ-
ed chapters about "God in the
Bible," "God in Rabbinic
Literature" and the "The Neo-
Aristotelianism of Maimonides."
The updated version features a
chapter on "Newer Approaches" to
suggest ideas related to post-
Holocaust issues, feminist attitudes
and the renewal movement among
many other current points of view.
The end of the book includes a

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