Tender At The Bone: Growing Up At The Table

Culinary Biographies & Memoirs

Author: Ruth Reichl

New York Times restaurant critic Ruth Reichl shares lessons learned at the hands (and kitchen counters) of family members and friends throughout her life, from growing up with her taste-blind mother to the comfort of cream puffs while away at boarding school on “Mars” (Montreal seemed just as far away) to her most memorable meal, taken on a mountainside in Greece. Her stor….Read More

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