Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise (alkuperäinen julkaisuvuosi 2005; vuoden 2006 painos)

I liked listening to her talk about her process for going to restaurants in disguise and writing their reviews. ( )

Summer reading: a memoir. ( )

This was an engaging listen of a world I will never understand or experience. A lot of fancy food, and I’m not sure if it was just the 90s or what because I don’t think chic restaurants are like this now. Reichl’s disguises were interesting, but I kind of felt offended for the people she was basing them on as how a person looks does not a character make. ( )

LOVED this. Entertaining, funny, mouth-watering, and poignant.

The only downside is that it made me long to take a trip and eat at expensive restaurants more than ever. And I now have a new ambition to find a way to eat food, write about it, and get paid for it. I couldn't do it as well as Ruth Reichl, but it sure is a fun fantasy to think about. ( )

I enjoyed her book [b:Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir|41644326|Save Me the Plums My Gourmet Memoir|Ruth Reichl|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1544114364l/41644326._SY75_.jpg|64983178], and this book set in the time just before Save Me The Plums was equally fun. In Garlic and Sapphires, Ruth Reichl leaves her job at the Los Angeles Times to return to New York City where she is the restaurant critic at The New York Times.

Apparently, she is a wanted person at NYC restaurants, and she is easily recognized. So, she often goes to restaurants in various disguises.

The storytelling is a lot of fun, and I liked that the reviews for certain relevant restaurants appeared within the book.

At times, it felt like it dragged a bit. Maybe it was longer than it needed to be?

3.8 rounded up to 4 ( )