Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table by Ruth Reichl

Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table by Ruth Reichl
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

4.0/5.0 - Having watched Ruth Reichl as a judge on Top Chef and reading a previous book, Delicious!, I was interested in reading this memoir and learning more about her. This memoir covers only her first thirty years, up until 1978, and focuses on what led her to cooking as a life. Her unique family, her independent childhood, the influence of two women who cooked for her mother and her pseudo-grandmother and her time in a Montreal boarding school, where her best friend was the daughter of a French diplomat, who loved nothing more than showing the two schoolgirls delightful French food, these all came together to create a young woman who loved to cook, who lived to cook, and who cooked to live. The second part of the book, from her college years on, shows the effect of various college friends, colleagues, and travel to different countries. Rounding out the book are recipes, each one cooked for a different person she loved.
Book 5 of 2020
PopSugar # 3: A book set in multiple countries


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