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Finally finished this memoir. It was in the car and I read it very intermittently over years. It took so long I can‘t remember much about it - except I found it a bit uneven and it didn‘t hold my interest.

Touching story, good writing, and lovely recipes. I enjoyed.

Very readable story of the author's younger years, including surviving a manic depressive mother. All is centered around food and a number of recipes are put in the book too. She lived quite a life, and it makes me want to appreciate and try interesting dishes !

I started this one and it looks good. I'm not really a foodie though but interested.

Local bookstore has reopened!😲

An incredibly well written memoir which centres around her food but also deals with what she had to deal with in her life e.g. mental health issues. Have made note of a couple of the recipes in the book. If I ever do cook, will try them.😬

What goes better with lunch than a food memoir? 😁

A heartwarming coming of age foodie story. I loved this peek into her odd upbringing and interesting family. And there are some great recipes I can‘t wait to try thrown in!

#currentread

Very readable.
It was interesting to see how her upbringing influenced not just her career but also her life choices. A very thoughtful memoir. 😊🍽🍴🥄🔪🥢

Starting the last of my borrowed books.

Read 50 pages of Know My Name and now I'm going to take a break for the night. Hoping this will be a bit lighter off a read before bed.

This book is just delicious. A series of anecdotes about family and food memories and all so beautifully, tantalisingly described. You learn a lot about Ruth‘s childhood and early adulthood, and although she has a privileged start in life, she goes through a lot and has her eyes wide open throughout. It amazed me to read about the recycling and environmental concerns she had in the 60s - a flash forward to the things we‘re still talking about now!

#7days7covers #covercrush - Day 7 - post a favourite cover each day for 7 days and tag someone new each time. Any Litten interested in playing please consider yourself tagged 💜🐉

Ruth Reichl's narration of her memoir Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table brings to life one of my favorite types of audiobooks: authors reading their own work, their own lives. The book, which covers Reichl's childhood through the beginning of her career as a food critic, provides a brilliant focus on her family, particularly her mother, who suffers from manic depression; her more distant father; and her amazing partner. ⬇️

I listened to this one because I love Ruth Reichl's voice and her narration of her own books adds so much to her fascinating story. I gave this one a 5 out of 5 stars on Goodreads, even though I later found out that it was abridged. I'll have to read the book to see what I missed. I would recommend any Ruth Reichl audiobook, but especially this one and Save Me the Plums. (No picture as I am having extreme difficulty uploading them to Litsy.)

I‘m going to see Ruth Reichl on Monday. So excited! I think I need to reread one of these next. Start at the beginning, perhaps?
#24B4Monday
@TheReadingMermaid @Andrew65

Enjoyed this food memoir. It was a library ebook, and I forgot to take a second photo. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I adore a good food memoir. This is one of my favorites. With recipes, too!

4/5 Stars! I enjoyed this immensely. It recalls the author's life from a young age to her early twenties. Full of nostalgia and Ruth's journey toward food (her parents were wholly uninterested in food and down right awful cooks.) Tender moments, good recipes, and also some fun laughs. Would read again and recommend to anyone who loves memoirs or food writing.

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I have a lot of favorites in life, including female authors. Madeleine L‘Engle is certainly one (as I posted yesterday), but Ruth Reichl is also wonderful. I‘ve read every book she‘s written and never been disappointed. Part memoir, part cooking, food and recipes, her subject matter as well as style of writing draw me in to her world. The above book is the first of her memoirs.

...because I didn‘t have enough unread books in my house. 🤷🏻‍♀️💅🏽 In my defense, two of these are book club picks, the other two magically appeared. ⚠️Also, if anyone is a Savers shopper (where I bought these babies), every Monday during summer is 50% off everything including books! 🤑📚📚📚

I love Ruth Reichl's writing and this book was no exception! I picked it up this morning and haven't put it down. It covers her childhood through early adulthood and all of her early food experiences. My only regret is that I read this after reading Comfort Me With Apples--I need to remember my own rules about reading things in order! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I'm starting a new job on Monday, so I have a couple days off to relax! Definitely time for a book + bath bomb type of morning.

"The first dish was a clear consommé that tasted as if a million chickens had died to make it."

#readingwomenmonth #memoir

I love reading about people that work with food & this was 1 of the very 1st memoirs I read and ever since I read every chef/foodie memoir I can get my hands on. #giveawaythetruth

🤧🏡🤧🍵🍯🍋😩 #BlanketFort #HomeSweetHome

Current status & mood the past 3 days. I hear it's not worth going outside anyway, (37°) so I'll just stay in my blanketfort with my sniffles. Haven't had the energy to read much but going to see if I can finish up my current read so I can start something new. Starting a new book is always exciting don't you agree? Surely the fun in deciding & picking out what to read next will perk me up a bit.

🤧👃🤧👃🤧....🍲❤ #CurrentRead #FoodieBooks

When my nose feels like it's about to fall off, nothing beats a steaming hot bowl of pho to accompany my runny stuffed nose & current read. 😩🍲📖👍

12 books this month! Most of these were for school, directly or indirectly, and while none of them were terrible, I'm looking forward to having a little more freedom in my free reading next month! #feistyfeb #bestoffebruary

🤓😋 #CurrentRead #LibrarianLife

Getting in a few pages before this meeting starts....food always makes meetings go over better and faster! Yum!😋

#whereiread #riotgrams Olive and I camp out here pretty much every night, usually with my laptop and/or a book for grad school. This lovely memoir was at Nancy Pearl's recommendation (and for a readers' advisory project)!

This book is fantastic and it makes me want to be a better cook. I only picked it up because it met one of my reading challenge slots, but I'm so glad I did. It was a fun, quick read.

I didn't think that food memoirs were my thing, but I guess I was wrong! Great book to end this year's challenge on. Now I want Book Riot to post next year's categories so I can start planning!! #readharder

Fabulous memoir.

I adored this memoir. Former New York Times Food Critic and Editor of Gourmet Magazine, Ruth Reichl takes you back to her quirky New York childhood, through her food obsessed formative years and then early culinary career working at Chez Panisse while living in a commune. So cool! A real page turner for food lovers.

Finished this one last night. Interesting goodie memoir

Started this last night. Loving it already.

I love Reichl's conversational tone of talking, and much like "Garlic and Sapphires," this didn't disappoint!

Fun Friday Photo post....Fritz and Noodle contemplate the next book from the Cookbook and food related shelves.

Spree.