Ruth Reichl Quotes
Top 85 wise famous quotes and sayings by Ruth Reichl
Ruth Reichl Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Ruth Reichl on Wise Famous Quotes.
If you have caviar, the way to eat it is by the spoonful. Don't combine it with shrimp, pomegranate seeds and huitlacoche.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don't know how to do, to keep learning.
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.
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.
Don't make a big to-do about the turkey; brine it, put it in the oven, and don't think about it again.
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.
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.
You look at the Barefoot Contessa or Lydia Bastianich, and it's just like watching your mother cooking.
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.
When you're a restaurant critic, you're not home at night, so breakfast became really important for us.
The first time you make something, follow the recipe, then figure out how to tailor it to your own tastes.
The hardest part of cooking is shopping, and if you organize yourself and shop once a week, you're halfway there.
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.
I discovered that endings have their own odd thrill. In the mania of the moment, it's possible to forget what you are losing.
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.
It was Mac who first made me think about the way food brought people together - and kept them apart.
When I came to 'Gourmet,' I had no clue how to run a magazine; for television, I am fascinated to learn about editing.
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.
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.
Hermione was back, holding out a gossamer dress of rainbow chiffon so airy I thought of fireflies on a moonlight night.
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.
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.
If you go back in American history, oysters were the food of poor people. New York was filled with oyster saloons in the 1800s.
Giving people presents is such an intimate act; you're basically telling them who you think they are,
I learned so much in Laos. I learned that fried silkworm larvae are delicious. I learned how to make ant-egg salad.
You can be a decent critic if you know about food, but to be a really good one, you need to know about life.
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.
What I like best is the challenge of learning something I didn't know how to do, going beyond my comfort level.
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.
Anyone who thinks they're too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to my house for dinner
I meet people, and we can get past small talk pretty quickly if they've read my books. It's a great shortcut.
One of the effects of cheap food is, we have food that is so unsatisfactory. We need to go back to flavor.
Don't you just love the idea of cooking flowers? I imagine them bursting into bloom, right in the pan.
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.
In really good times, you say, 'No, I'm not taking that ad.' But in bad times, you'll take anything.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You don't want to give people what they want. Give them something that they didn't know that they wanted.
The American government policy on what we supported and subsidised in agriculture was a social experiment on a whole generation of children.
Given a choice between great food and boring company or boring food and great company, I'll take the great company any day.
We in America have gotten addicted to cheap food. The result of that is antibiotic-laden fish, foods that are bred to be portable.
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.
It was through cooking food and sharing it with each other that our ancestors learned how to become social animals.
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.