Thursday, July 9, 2015

Delicious! - Gingerbread Cake

Delicious! A Novel
By Ruth Reichl
400 pages, Random House, 2014



I have mentioned previously that I am a great fan of Ruth Reichl’s work. I was deeply moved by her first memoir, Tender at the Bone, and very much enjoyed Garlic and Sapphires, in which she reveals her backstage adventures as a food critic. I like her as an author and as a narrator, the way her voice strikes a balance between kindness and no-nonsense. I have tucked away her other two memoirs for a rainy day, and look forward to reading them.

So I was very excited about her first novel, Delicious!, which came out last year. I was prepared to love it. I wanted to love it.