Ruth Reichl

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The familiar is so easy to overlook. And that is why I travel.

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Back then we were convinced that the future would be different, and to me the real story here is that almost fifty years on, not nearly enough has changed. In most of the celebrated kitchens of the world the men are still in charge.

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perhaps the first American who understood that when people go out to eat they’re after more than merely food. They want an experience, they want excitement, they want fun.

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I was only in Paris for one day, but the three meals I had there made me think that Verjus is onto something.

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We are so fortunate to be living in a time when even urban dwellers can buy fresh fruits and vegetables directly from the people who grow them.

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It is, hands down, the most impactful piece of food writing ever produced in America - and one of the reasons I became a food writer.

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For me, all these books – with the exception of Diet for a Small Planet – are really an exhortation to pay attention to the little things in life, to get pleasure out of this thing we all do every day, three times a day.

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If you ask most people about the Alice B Toklas cookbook, the recipe that comes immediately to mind is marijuana brownies.