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136 Recipes That Saved My Life
Random House
October 2015
On Sale: September 29, 2015
352 pages
ISBN: 140006998X
EAN: 9781400069989
Kindle: B00RRT33F6
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Cookbooks | Non-Fiction Cooking / Food
In the fall of 2009, the food world was rocked when
Gourmet magazine was abruptly shuttered by its parent
company. No one was more stunned by this unexpected turn of
events than its beloved editor in chief, Ruth Reichl, who
suddenly faced an uncertain professional future. As she
struggled to process what had seemed unthinkable, Reichl
turned to the one place that had always provided sanctuary.
“I did what I always do when I’m confused, lonely, or
frightened,” she writes. “I disappeared into the
kitchen.”
My Kitchen Year follows the
change of seasons—and Reichl’s emotions—as she slowly heals
through the simple pleasures of cooking. While working 24/7,
Reichl would “throw quick meals together” for her family and
friends. Now she has the time to rediscover what cooking
meant to her. Imagine kale, leaves dark and inviting,
sautéed with chiles and garlic; summer peaches baked into a
simple cobbler; fresh oysters chilling in a box of snow;
plump chickens and earthy mushrooms, fricasseed with cream.
Over the course of this challenging year, each dish Reichl
prepares becomes a kind of stepping stone to finding joy
again in ordinary things.
The 136 recipes
collected here represent a life’s passion for food: a
blistering ma po tofu that shakes Reichl out of the blues; a
decadent grilled cheese sandwich that accompanies a rare
sighting in the woods around her home; a rhubarb sundae that
signals the arrival of spring. Here, too, is Reichl’s
enlivening dialogue with her Twitter followers, who become
her culinary supporters and lively confidants.
Part cookbook, part memoir, part paean to the
household gods, My Kitchen Year may be Ruth Reichl’s
most stirring book yet—one that reveals a refreshingly
vulnerable side of the world's most famous food editor as
she shares treasured recipes to be returned to again and
again and again.
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