92: Ruth Reichl on Writing

Everything Cookbooks

Kate and Molly speak with Ruth Reichl, an icon and authority in the food media world, about her breadth of writing experience - restaurant reviews, cookbooks, memoirs, articles and even tweets- and her new book, The Paris Novel. Ruth shares why food is a universal framework, her inspirations for this novel and the process of working with a new editor. She talks about being a "writer who hates writing" and how this process differed from others as well as how she accesses memories to include specificities in her scenes. Finally, she shares her advice to push into the unknown and what she is working on next.

Hosts: Kate Leahy + Molly Stevens + Kristin Donnelly + Andrea Nguyen

Editor: Abby Cerquitella

Mentions

Ruth Reichl

• Substack
• Instagram

Food and Country Film

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Visit the Everything Cookbooks Bookshop to purchase a copy of the books mentioned in the show

• The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl
• Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl
• Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl
• My Kitchen Year by Ruth Reichl
• Delicious! by Ruth Reichl
• Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl
• Comfort Me with Apples by Ruth Reichl