Ruth Reichl

Gourmet Editor and author Ruth Reichl with Alison Fryer, manager of The Cookbook Store.

Ruth Reichl: Not Becoming My Mother, & other things she taught me along the way
Joanne Kates, restaurant critic for The Globe and Mail, interviews Ruth Reichl, editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine and former restaurant critic for the New York Times. Ruth has written her latest book on what would have been her mother's one hundredth birthday. This is an entertaining and engaging discussion about food and family with a Question & Answer period that follows. The interview has been divided up into shorter segments for easier viewing.

1. An Introduction by Alison Fryer (video above)
   
2. A Bittersweet Story
3. A Book for Daughters
4. A Painful Book to Write
5. Mim Tales: She did the best she could
6. On Not Becoming Your Mother
7. Happiness / Independence
8. Reparenting Ourselves / Having Children
9. Cooking Makes Us Human
10. Audience Q & A - Food
11. Audience Q & A - Gourmet Magazine
12. Audience Q & A - About the book
13. Audience Q & A - Being a food critic; Celebrity chefs

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