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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
Life is so endlessly delicious
— 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
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
I don't think I hate any food trends.
— Ruth Reichl
You look at the Barefoot Contessa or Lydia Bastianich, and it's just like watching your mother cooking.
— 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.
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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.
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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
I have to admit I've never had a Fruit Loop.
— Ruth Reichl
It was Mac who first made me think about the way food brought people together - and kept them apart.
— 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
Hermione was back, holding out a gossamer dress of rainbow chiffon so airy I thought of fireflies on a moonlight night.
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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
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
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
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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
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
In really good times, you say, 'No, I'm not taking that ad.' But in bad times, you'll take anything.
— Ruth Reichl
Anybody who believes Yelp is an idiot. Most people on Yelp have no idea what they're talking about.
— 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
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
It was through cooking food and sharing it with each other that our ancestors learned how to become social animals.
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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
I think I wrote my first piece about food in 1978.
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I'd rather be a fool than hard-hearted.
— Ruth Reichl