Save me the plums : my gourmet memoir / Ruth Reichl.
Trailblazing food writer and beloved restaurant critic Ruth Reichl took the job (and the risk) of a lifetime when she entered the glamorous, high-stakes world of magazine publishing. Now, for the first time, she chronicles her groundbreaking tenure as editor in chief of Gourmet, during which she spearheaded a revolution in the way we think about food. When Condé Nast offered Ruth Reichl the top position at America's oldest epicurean magazine, she declined. She was a writer, not a manager, and had no inclination to be anyone's boss. And 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 restaurants became an important part of popular culture, a time when the rise of the farm-to-table movement changed, forever, the way we eat. Readers will meet legendary chefs like David Chang and Eric Ripert, idiosyncratic writers like David Foster Wallace, and a colorful group of editors and art directors who, under Reichl's leadership, transformed stately Gourmet into a cutting-edge publication. This was the golden age of print media--the last spendthrift gasp before the Internet turned the magazine world upside down. Complete with recipes, Save Me the Plums is a personal journey of a woman coming to terms with being in charge and making a mark, following a passion and holding on to her dreams--even when she ends up in a place she never expected to be.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780385393492
- ISBN: 0385393490
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 sound file (07 hr., 57 min., 33 sec.)) : digital
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [New York] : Random House Audio, 2019.
Content descriptions
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by the author. |
Source of Description Note: | Online resource; title from title details screen (OverDrive, viewed April 8, 2019). |
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Subject: | Reichl, Ruth. Reichl, Ruth. Women food writers > United States > Biography. Women food writers. United States. |
Genre: | Autobiographies. Audiobooks. Electronic books. Audiobooks. Autobiographies. Biography. |