Your Ruth Reichl Doggie Bag
Thank you for joining us for an evening with Ruth Reichl that no one wanted to end. Please savour these links to stories mentioned by Ruth, who fell in love with our city and all of you.
Ruth’s Best Brownie Ever Recipe
Ruth’s current top 3 restaurants in NYC
- Crown Shy
- Atomix
- The Standard Grill
The Peanut Butter story from The Best American Food Writing of 2018 (Ruth’s favourite story).
A sad personal aside: I was part of the launch team at ESPN the Magazine, and spent a decade working on special issues for the magazine. Yesterday, ESPN shuttered their award-winning magazine. Let’s raise a glass to my unusually talented and highly eccentric former teammates.
Insight into Ruth’s incredibly talented father, book designer Ernst Reichl
Brownies by Sweet Relief Patries, served at Ruth Reichl's event.
Substantial Bites from Ruth’s Gourmet
David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster
And here’s a link to DFW reading the piece
David Halberstam, The Boys from Saigon
Barry Estabrooks: Politics of the Plate
David Rakoff, Some Pig: I couldn’t find a link to the article, but here’s a wonderful ode to one of Canada’s best satirists (buy his essay collections!)
Lost Recipes from Save Me the Plums
- Spicy Chicken with Peanuts
- Mrs. Bergamini’s Fresh Tomato Sauce
- Celebration Shrimp Pasta
- Bonus: a chapter about one of my favourite writers, Calvin Trillin, which didn’t make it into Save Me the Plums. (Note, Trillin’s book Killings is a must-read.)
Finally, one bittersweet parting gift: the lost Christmas recipes from the Dec. 2009 issue of Gourmet, which had been researched, photographed and written but was never published.
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Yours in fun and friendship,
Shelley Youngblut
CEO & Creative Ringleader
“Connecting Calgarians with Life-Changing Experiences”
