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If you have caviar, the way to eat it is by the spoonful. Don't combine it with shrimp, pomegranate seeds and huitlacoche. — Ruth Reichl

We slid along water reds and greens, the changing lights captured in the canvas of wet tar. — Ruth Reichl

I couldn't live without butter. Butter is probably my single favourite food. — Ruth Reichl

Life is so endlessly delicious — Ruth Reichl

I love breakfast, and I don't see any reason it has to be cereal and eggs and toast. — Ruth Reichl

One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don't know how to do, to keep learning. — Ruth Reichl

It was so rich and exotic I was seduced into taking one bite and then another as I tried to chase the flavors back to their source. — Ruth Reichl

Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious. — Ruth Reichl

But I have always been persuaded that someday, when I grow up, I am destined for great things. And then I wonder when, exactly, I expect that will be. — Ruth Reichl

Don't make a big to-do about the turkey; brine it, put it in the oven, and don't think about it again. — Ruth Reichl

What I always do in times of trouble or stress is to try and do something I don't know how to do. — Ruth Reichl

My kitchen was built for my body. It forms a 'U' in the middle of the living room and dining room. It's not huge, because I don't like huge kitchens. — Ruth Reichl

I don't think I hate any food trends. — Ruth Reichl

My idea of management is that what your job is as the boss is to find really good people and empower them and leave them alone. — Ruth Reichl

You look at the Barefoot Contessa or Lydia Bastianich, and it's just like watching your mother cooking. — Ruth Reichl

I felt that I was really living in the moment. I did not know where my life was going, but right now the future did not trouble me. — Ruth Reichl

When you're a restaurant critic, you're not home at night, so breakfast became really important for us. — Ruth Reichl

The first time you make something, follow the recipe, then figure out how to tailor it to your own tastes. — Ruth Reichl

The hardest part of cooking is shopping, and if you organize yourself and shop once a week, you're halfway there. — Ruth Reichl

I feel as if there's a huge gulf separating me from all the lucky people in the world; they have so much to look forward to. — Ruth Reichl

When a person has lived generously and fought fiercely, she deserves more than sadness at the end. — Ruth Reichl

I discovered that endings have their own odd thrill. In the mania of the moment, it's possible to forget what you are losing. — Ruth Reichl

My mother's name was Miriam, but most people called her Mim. — Ruth Reichl

I like to work. I believe that work helps us find our self worth. — Ruth Reichl

I have to admit I've never had a Fruit Loop. — Ruth Reichl

My idea of good living is not about eating high on the hog. Rather, to me, good living means understanding how food connects us to the earth. — Ruth Reichl

And he smiled when he saw me, as if just the sight of me had improved his day. — Ruth Reichl

It was Mac who first made me think about the way food brought people together - and kept them apart. — Ruth Reichl

I like poached eggs, but I'll make scrambled or fried or whatever anybody wants. — Ruth Reichl

If you really taste a doughnut, it's pretty disgusting. They taste of grease. — Ruth Reichl

When I came to 'Gourmet,' I had no clue how to run a magazine; for television, I am fascinated to learn about editing. — Ruth Reichl

In the end you are the only one who can make yourself happy. More important, ... it is never too late to find out how to do it. — Ruth Reichl

I'm a home cook, and I'm constantly embarrassed by twentysomethings who really do know the mechanics of cooking. How to build a sauce. — Ruth Reichl

Hermione was back, holding out a gossamer dress of rainbow chiffon so airy I thought of fireflies on a moonlight night. — Ruth Reichl

To me, cooking is man's natural activity. But I think writing is really hard. Certainly writing fiction is the hardest thing I've ever done. — Ruth Reichl

I have to say I know much more about football than I would like to, because my husband is a rabid football fan, and it's been so horrible. — Ruth Reichl

If you go back in American history, oysters were the food of poor people. New York was filled with oyster saloons in the 1800s. — Ruth Reichl

Giving people presents is such an intimate act; you're basically telling them who you think they are, — Ruth Reichl

That's the most terrible thing about being a child; you're convinced that it's all your fault. Lulu — Ruth Reichl

I learned so much in Laos. I learned that fried silkworm larvae are delicious. I learned how to make ant-egg salad. — Ruth Reichl

You can be a decent critic if you know about food, but to be a really good one, you need to know about life. — Ruth Reichl

When people flatter you constantly it is very tempting to think you deserve it. — Ruth Reichl

A great meal is an experience that nourishes more than your body. — Ruth Reichl

For me, cooking is a way to try and please people and tell them I love them. When I fall in love with someone, I want to feed them as well. — Ruth Reichl

Writing about food is my default. — Ruth Reichl

What I like best is the challenge of learning something I didn't know how to do, going beyond my comfort level. — Ruth Reichl

Ask people to pitch in - hand them a spoon and ask them to stir. Doing things together, having everyone help, makes for a nicer party. — Ruth Reichl

I wanted to figure out a way of living where I didn't have to be in an office every day. — Ruth Reichl

Anyone who thinks they're too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to my house for dinner — Ruth Reichl

The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness. — Ruth Reichl

I don't think there's one thing more important you can do for your kids than have family dinner. — Ruth Reichl

It takes a great deal of strength to be an optimist. — Ruth Reichl

I meet people, and we can get past small talk pretty quickly if they've read my books. It's a great shortcut. — Ruth Reichl

One of the effects of cheap food is, we have food that is so unsatisfactory. We need to go back to flavor. — Ruth Reichl

That's what I like so much about libraries, they smell the way we would like to imagine the past. — Ruth Reichl

Don't you just love the idea of cooking flowers? I imagine them bursting into bloom, right in the pan. — Ruth Reichl

The way we live is changing. Each year, our free time shrinks a little more as computers clamor for an increasing percentage of our attention. — Ruth Reichl

I bake bread nearly every day; I use Jim Lahey's no-knead method and leave it to rise overnight. — Ruth Reichl

That's what I like so much about old libraries - they smell the way we'd like to imagine the past. — Ruth Reichl

If you're going to tell stuff, you might as well tell the real stuff. — Ruth Reichl

In really good times, you say, 'No, I'm not taking that ad.' But in bad times, you'll take anything. — Ruth Reichl

I think of fiction as the highest calling. I'm kind of addicted to it. It's the thing that has gotten me through all the hard points in my life. — Ruth Reichl

I'm not a big turkey fan, but my husband loves it. Thanksgiving is his favorite meal. — Ruth Reichl

My mother's father was a doctor, and she desperately wanted to be a doctor. — Ruth Reichl

I loved being at the 'Times,' and they were incredibly good to me. I think it's a wonderful paper, and I was really well edited. — Ruth Reichl

I am telling you that if things can change for the worse, the opposite is also true. But only if you open yourself to the possibilities. — Ruth Reichl

I don't care what a lot of anonymous strangers think about restaurants. — Ruth Reichl

Anybody who believes Yelp is an idiot. Most people on Yelp have no idea what they're talking about. — Ruth Reichl

When I ate slowly and deliberately, giving myself time to consider whether I actually wanted that next bite, I often discovered that I didn't. — Ruth Reichl

M. F. K. Fisher was a wonder and a huge influence, and someone I got to know pretty well at the end of her life. — Ruth Reichl

You don't want to give people what they want. Give them something that they didn't know that they wanted. — Ruth Reichl

I once ate nothing but grapefruit for an entire month. I didn't lose a pound. — Ruth Reichl

Let's face it: my life tends to revolve around food, and I love feeding people. — Ruth Reichl

The American government policy on what we supported and subsidised in agriculture was a social experiment on a whole generation of children. — Ruth Reichl

Given a choice between great food and boring company or boring food and great company, I'll take the great company any day. — Ruth Reichl

We in America have gotten addicted to cheap food. The result of that is antibiotic-laden fish, foods that are bred to be portable. — Ruth Reichl

Were unaware that the room was crowded with ghosts who were about to propel us into the present and force us to face the future. — Ruth Reichl

It was through cooking food and sharing it with each other that our ancestors learned how to become social animals. — Ruth Reichl

A real woman is someone who knows what she wants. If you want to stay home, that's fine, but you have to be clear-eyed. — Ruth Reichl

It is not 'only' food, I said heatedly. There's meaning hidden underneath each dish. — Ruth Reichl

I decided that it wasn't pretty that I felt, but confident. — Ruth Reichl

I think it's hard, when you're someone who likes to please people, as I am, to be a boss. I had to learn how to rein myself in and not terrify people. — Ruth Reichl

I had done this. I had pulled my life apart. I would never, ever be safe again. — Ruth Reichl

I think I wrote my first piece about food in 1978. — Ruth Reichl

I'd rather be a fool than hard-hearted. — Ruth Reichl