{"product_id":"book-aypk","title":"Comfort Me with Apples","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this delightful sequel to her bestseller \u003cem\u003eTender at the Bone\u003c\/em\u003e, the beloved food writer Ruth Reichl returns with more tales of love, life, humor, and marvelous meals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen listeners left Ruth at the end of \u003cem\u003eTender at the Bone\u003c\/em\u003e, she was in Berkeley, California, working as a chef at the Swallow restaurant. \u003cem\u003eComfort Me with Apples\u003c\/em\u003e picks up in 1978; Ruth is still living in a commune with her husband, Doug, but she's decided to put down her chef's toque and embark on a career as a restaurant critic. After a bumpy start (at the end of her very first on-the-job dinner, her credit card is unceremoniously rejected), she is soon visiting restaurants all over the world in search of a meal to write home about. The story that follows is an affectionate look at the apprenticeship-funny, daunting, always entertaining-of one of our best food writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRuth Reichl's pursuit of good food and good company leads her to New York and China, France and Los Angeles. She encounters world-famous chefs such as Wolfgang Puck and the three-star aristocracy of French cuisine, and her accounts of these meetings range from the madcap to the sublime. From a transformative lunch with M. F. K. Fisher to a friendship with Alice Waters, Reichl lovingly re-creates all her memorable meals in such succulent detail that listeners will yearn for truffles in Provence and shrimp in Beijing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout it all, Reichl is unafraid, even eager, to poke holes in the pretensions of food critics, making each and every course a hilarious and instructive occasion for novices and experts alike. Reichl also shares the intimacies of her personal life-the joys and the heartbreaks behind the reviews-in a style so honest and warm that listeners will feel they are enjoying a cozy dining-table conversation with a friend.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49291794088240,"sku":"BDaypk","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49291794121008,"sku":"ZEaypk","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/aypk-Square-cover.jpg?v=1782350302","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-aypk","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}