2005 book 22

ruth reichl's comfort me with apples
this week's popular materials assignment was to read a work of non-fiction--pretty broad, no? i tend to like memoirs and biographies of the literary types, and i also like food a lot, so reichl's memoir seemed like a good bet. i remembered liking her first memoir, tender at the bone, and by page two i realized that i had also read this one--well, it came out four years ago! i can't be expected to remember every book i've read, if it's not on my bookshelf to remind me! or maybe i'd only read an excerpt. it all just seemed so . . . familiar. anyway, reichl is a pretty engrossing writer--she's had an interesting life, and it's pretty cool to read about her experiences meeting and eating with wolfgang puck before he was famous, and danny kaye, and california food luminaries i'd never heard of. her travelogues are also pretty exciting, and she doesn't seem to hold back when it comes to discussing her personal life either. every chapter ends with a recipe, so it's basically the perfect combination of memoir and cookbook.

anyway, now i have this blog entry to remind me that i've read it before, and i might seek out a different non-fiction work for thursday--rereadings just feel like cheating somehow, even if it is inadvertent!