Ruth Reichl

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Ruth Reichl (born January 16, 1948) (pronounced RYE-shil) is an American chef, food writer, co-producer of PBS' Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie, host of PBS' Adventures With Ruth, and the current editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine.

Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table, Comfor Me with Apples: A New Adventures at the Table by a Critic in Disguise and Not Becoming My Mother are two of her critically acclaimed, best-selling memoirs by Barbara Tender: Growing Up at the Table.

Gourmet Today, a 1,008-page cookbook with over 1,000 recipes, was released in 2009.

Delicious, her first book, was published. 136 Recipes That Saved My Life, a collection of recipes created in the year following Gourmet's shuttering, was published in 2014 and again in 2015.

Early life and education

Born in 1948 to Ernst, a typographer and a German Jewish immigrant father and an American Jewish mother, Miriam (née Brudno), Reichl was raised in Greenwich Village and spent time as a young girl at a boarding school in Montreal. She obtained a sociology degree at the University of Michigan in 1968 and met her first husband, artist Douglas Hollis. She received her M.A. in 1970. Also from the University of Michigan, art history has a long history.

Personal life

Reichl is married to Michael Singer, with whom she has one son. They live in Spencertown, New York.

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Career

Reichl and Hollis went to Berkeley, California, where her passion for food led to her joining Swallow Restaurant as a chef and co-owner from 1973 to 1977, where she was instrumental in the culinary revival of the period. Reichl began writing Mmm: A Feastir, a cookbook, in 1972. She rose to become food writer and editor of New West magazine in 1978, then to the Los Angeles Times in 1993 as its restaurant editor and critic from 1990 to 1993. She returned to New York City in 1993 to become The New York Times' restaurant critic. She left the Times in 1999 to take over Gourmet's editorship, which she managed until it was closed in 2009. During her tenure, the magazine produced 988,000 copies per month (as of March 2007,) as well as commissioning works such as David Foster Wallace's "Consider the Lobster."

She is known for her ability to "make or break" a restaurant with her keen attention to detail and a vivacious spirit. Her aim, according to CBS News Online, has been to "demystify the world of fine cuisine." She has received praise from readers and writers alike for her candidté about certain aspects of haute cuisine that are otherwise unheardent. She criticized the sexism prevalent in dine-out experiences among women in dine-out situations, as well as the pretentiousness of the ritziest New York restaurants and restaurateurs alike from an outsider's viewpoint.

Despite her success and accounts of how she managed to mask her identity when researching, she is quite open about why she stopped. "I really wanted to go home and cook for my family," she says. "I don't think there's anything more important you can do for your children than having dinner."

She has been named recipient of six James Beard Awards. In 1996 and 1998, she received awards for restaurant criticism; in 1994 for journalism; and in 1984 for Who's Who's Who's Who's What About Food and Beverage in America. She has also received several awards from the Association of American Food Journalists. Elizabeth Cutter Morrow Award from the YWCA also honoring the achievements of young, wealthy women. In 2002, and 2003, Reichl hosted three Food Network Specials titled "Eating Out Loud" which featured cuisine from every coast and corner of the United States, as well as Miami and San Francisco. On WNYC in New York, Leonard Lopate appears on WNYC's monthly food radio show.

Reichl appeared on seasons 3, 4, 5, and 5 of the Bravo reality television show Top Chef Masters from 2011 to 2013.

Reichl joined Substack in 2021 to begin publishing a food journal.

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