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Garlic And Sapphires (Paperback)
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Garlic And Sapphires (Paperback)
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"Genuinely touching, wonderfully revealing" NEW YORKER Garlic and
Sapphires is Ruth Reichl's riotous account of the many disguises
she employs to dine undetected when she takes on the much coveted
and highly prestigious job of New York Times restaurant critic.
____________________________________________________ Reichl knows
that to be a good critic she has to be anonymous - but her picture
is posted in every four-star, low-star kitchen in town and so she
embarks on an extraordinary - and hilarious - undercover game of
disguise - keeping even her husband and son in the dark. There is
her stint as Molly, a frumpy blonde in an off-beige Armani suit
that Ruth takes on when reviewing Le Cirque resulting in a double
review of the restaurant: first she ate there as Molly; and then as
she was coddled and pampered on her visit there as Ruth, New York
Times food critic. Then there is the eccentric, mysterious red head
on whom her husband - both disconcertingly and reassuringly -
develops a terrible crush. She becomes Brenda the earth mother,
Chloe the seductress and even Miriam her own (deceased) mother.
What is even more remarkable about Reichl's spy games is that as
she takes on these various guises, she finds herself changed not
just physically, but also in character revealing how one's outer
appearance can very much influence one's inner character,
expectations, and appetites.
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