Delicious!

by Author Ruth Reichl

  • Publisher Random House Trade
  • Year published 2015
  • ISBN: ISBN 978-0812982022
  • Number of pages 416 pages
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Working as a public relations hotline consultant for a once-prestigious culinary magazine, Billie Breslin unexpectedly enters a world of New York restaurateurs and artisanal purveyors while reading World War II letters exchanged between a plucky 12-year-old and James Beard. ebook icon Audio book icon

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About the Author
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Ruth Reichl is a critically acclaimed, best-selling author of Garlic and SapphiresTender at the Bone, and Comfort Me with Apples as well as her soon-to-be-released memoir, Save Me the PlumsDelicious! is her first novel. Ms. Reichl was editor-in chief of Gourmet magazine for ten years. She has been honored with 6 James Beard Awards and numerous other honors for her journalism. She holds a B.A. and an M.A. in the History of Art from the University of Michigan and lives in Upstate New York with her husband, Michael Singer, a television news producer.

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