10 Questions with Food Writer Ruth Reichl

Ruth Reichl is an award-winning food writer and famed former restaurant critic. She's written best-selling memoirs and was the last editor-in-chief of the now shuttered Gourmet magazine. Now, she adds fiction writer to that list. She releases her debut novel, Delicious!, this month.

We sat down with Ruth to ask her a few questions about her recent leap into fiction, the food items she always has stocked in her kitchen and the one question home cooks ask her most frequently.

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