Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir (Ruth Reichl) Baby Food showing two women preparing food

showing two women preparing food in a large kitchen

steaming pomegranate and walnut chicken

where guests assemble their own sushi from cooked and fresh fillings

Signed by Julia Child on the half-title

tips on troubleshooting tricky wines (corked

Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir (Ruth Reichl) Baby Food showing two women preparing foodPaperback edition When Cond Nast offered Ruth Reichl the top position at Americas oldest epicurean magazine, she declined. She was a writer, not a manager, and had no inclination to be anyones boss. Yet Reichl had been reading Gourmet since she was eight; it had inspired her career. How could she say no? This is the story of a former Berkeley hippie entering the corporate world and worrying about losing her soul. It is the story of the moment