TY  - BOOK
AU  - Reichl,Ruth
TI  - Save me the plums: my Gourmet memoir 
SN  - 9781400069996
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York
KW  - Reichl, Ruth.
KW  - Women food writers
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Food writers
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N2  - When Condé Nast offered Ruth Reichl the top position at America's oldest epicurean magazine, she declined. She was a writer, not a manager, and had no inclination to be anyone's boss. Yet Reichl had been reading Gourmet since she was eight; it had inspired her career. How could she say no? This is the story of a former Berkeley hippie entering the corporate world and worrying about losing her soul. It is the story of the moment restaurants became an important part of popular culture, a time when the rise of the farm-to-table movement changed, forever, the way we eat. Readers will meet legendary chefs like David Chang and Eric Ripert, idiosyncratic writers like David Foster Wallace, and a colorful group of editors and art directors who, under Reichl's leadership, transformed stately Gourmet into a cutting-edge publication. This was the golden age of print media--the last spendthrift gasp before the Internet turned the magazine world upside down. Complete with recipes, Save Me the Plums is a personal journey of a woman coming to terms with being in charge and making a mark, following a passion and holding on to her dreams--even when she ends up in a place she never expected to be
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