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The Everything Book Club, DAYTIME IN PERSON

"Garlic and Sapphires" by Ruth Reichl

A live, lively librarian-led book club discussion about a wide range of titles and genres. Register here for DAYTIME IN PERSON or on Wednesday, July 17, for EVENING ZOOM! Registration required.

ABOUT THE BOOK CLUB

If you like everything bagels, you'll probably like The Everything Book Club. We read the best of fiction and non-fiction, literary novels, mysteries, historical fiction, memoirs and more.

We generally meet on the third week of the month at two convenient times and venues:  Evening Zoom on Thursday at 7 p.m. and Daytime in Person at 1 p.m. in the Tower Room on the 2nd floor. Registration is required.

ABOUT THE BOOK

"Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise." A funny, poignant, and revealing bestselling memoir by the former restaurant critic of the New York Times and the former editor of Gourmet magazine. If you read this book in bed, you'll wake up dying for a midnight snack!  

One reader called her "a spy in the house of food." When Ruth Reichl took the powerful job of restaurant critic for the New York Times, she had to resort to kooky, elaborate disguises and personas to avoid being coddled by oversolicitous restaurateurs and maitre d's and capture the city's foodie scene as it really was. Her hilarious antics and take-downs of snobs are only surpassed by her mouthwatering reviews and recipes (it wouldn't be a Ruth Reichl book without them). Reichl's friendships with her regular dining companions, especially her mother's friend Carol who develops health problems over the course of the book and her four-year old son also provide a counterbalance to the heady world of haute cuisine the book otherwise inhabits.

Click on the links to order the book in print or eBook on Libby/OverDrive. You can also ask for a copy at the circulation desk in the Main Branch. 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ruth Reichl is the New York Times bestselling author of five memoirs, the novels Delicious! and The Paris Novel, and the cookbook My Kitchen Year. She was editor in chief of Gourmet magazine, and previously served as restaurant critic for The New York Times, as well as food editor and restaurant critic for the Los Angeles Times. She has been honored with six James Beard Awards.

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