Ruth Reichl on NPR today
April 23rd, 2009 by Cliff Bostock in Food media
Ruth Reichl, former dining critic for the New York Times and now editor of Gourmet magazine, was interviewed on NPR this morning. She has published another memoir, a brief one about her mother.
Not Becoming My Mother: And Other Things She Taught Me Along the Way will resonate with anyone who is the child of an intelligent woman of the pre-war generation. Miriam, Reichl’s mother, was frustrated in her own ambition by the cultural bias of the time. Although a supremely funny person, Miriam was unhappy throughout most of her adult life.
I haven’t read the book but, listening to Reichl and reading the first chapter excerpted on NPR’s site, it is obviously a bittersweet story of how the culture shapes all of us for better or worse.
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