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Ruth Reichl

Profession : Chef

Birth : January 16, 1948

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.

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What often, too often, happens in magazines is that you end up with a great editorial product, and then you're selling things that you don't really approve of.

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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.

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The critic has to do more of what the book critics and art critics have done in the past. Which is give you a context for understanding the restaurant, give you a better way to appreciate it, give you the tools to go in there and be a more informed diner who can get more pleasure out of the experience.

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By the time I met Julia Child, her husband, Paul, was little more than a ghost of a man, so diminished by old age and its attendant diseases that it was impossible to discern the remarkable artist, photographer and poet he once had been.

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Anyone who has ever been an ugly adolescent - and we are legion - knows that the feeling of being unlovely and unlovable never goes away; it is always there, lurking just beneath the surface.

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

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Hunger, I discovered, is very much a matter of the mind, and as I began to study my own appetites, I saw that my teenage craving had not really been for food. That ravenous desire had been a yearning for love, attention, appreciation. Food had merely been my substitute.

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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.

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If we make it national policy that we will support small farmers the way we support agribusiness, we'll suddenly see it change in terms of the cost of organic food.

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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.

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

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I'm convinced that the main reason we've become so obsessed with restaurants is due to our basic need to get out of virtual space and into a real one. We're not going out to eat merely to share food; we're there to sit at the same table together, slow down, breathe the same air.

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

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

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

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