Recipes and a Dash of Fiction Not Enough to Spice Up Memoir

Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise, by Ruth Reichl. The Penguin Press, 333 pages, $24.95.

In Ruth Reichl’s first memoir, Tender at the Bone (1998), about her peculiar childhood, food was love. In her second, Comfort Me with Apples (2001), which covered her coming-of-age as a writer and a woman, Read More

Gore Campaign Shocker!

Gore Campaign Shocker!

The night before Vice President Al Gore walked through a service

entrance and into a private room at the Four Seasons restaurant on East

52nd Street, Barbara Walters had interviewed Monica Lewinsky on prime time

and left some of us with the realization that an irrevocable change in our

culture had occurred. Read More