Ruth Reichl
Ruth Reichl

The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness.

Ruth Reichl
Ruth Reichl

A real woman is someone who knows what she wants. If you want to stay home, that's fine, but you have to be clear-eyed.

Ruth Reichl
Ruth Reichl

If we make it national policy that we will support small farmers the way we support agribusiness, we'll suddenly see it change in terms of the cost of organic food.

Ruth Reichl
Ruth Reichl

I love breakfast, and I don't see any reason it has to be cereal and eggs and toast.

Ruth Reichl
Ruth Reichl

The first time you make something, follow the recipe, then figure out how to tailor it to your own tastes.

Ruth Reichl
Ruth Reichl

If you really taste a doughnut, it's pretty disgusting. They taste of grease.

Ruth Reichl
Ruth Reichl

Sharing food has always had a central place in civilized societies; it's no accident that so many of our cultural, religious and patriotic rituals are involved with eating.

Ruth Reichl
Ruth Reichl

If you start with a great peach, there's nothing you're ever going to do that's going to make it any better than when it comes off the tree. In 1970, that was a revolution.

Ruth Reichl
Ruth Reichl

If you go back in American history, oysters were the food of poor people. New York was filled with oyster saloons in the 1800s.

Ruth Reichl
Ruth Reichl

Ask people to pitch in - hand them a spoon and ask them to stir. Doing things together, having everyone help, makes for a nicer party.

Ruth Reichl
Ruth Reichl

What often, too often, happens in magazines is that you end up with a great editorial product, and then you're selling things that you don't really approve of.

Ruth Reichl
Ruth Reichl

You don't want to give people what they want. Give them something that they didn't know that they wanted.

Ruth Reichl
Ruth Reichl

If you have caviar, the way to eat it is by the spoonful. Don't combine it with shrimp, pomegranate seeds and huitlacoche.

Ruth Reichl
Ruth Reichl

'Comfort Me with Apples' is a love story, or better, two love stories. And since it deals with a later period in my life, most of the people who appear in it are living.

Ruth Reichl
Ruth Reichl

I'm a home cook, and I'm constantly embarrassed by twentysomethings who really do know the mechanics of cooking. How to build a sauce.

Ruth Reichl
Ruth Reichl

I loved being at the 'Times,' and they were incredibly good to me. I think it's a wonderful paper, and I was really well edited.

Ruth Reichl
Ruth Reichl

Reading an audio book is a very odd experience because there are three people sitting out there while you're reading in this glass booth, and you can see their reactions.

Ruth Reichl
Ruth Reichl

My mother's name was Miriam, but most people called her Mim.

Ruth Reichl
Ruth Reichl

I'm convinced that the main reason we've become so obsessed with restaurants is due to our basic need to get out of virtual space and into a real one. We're not going out to eat merely to share food; we're there to sit at the same table together, slow down, breathe the same air.

Ruth Reichl
Ruth Reichl

I don't have my own garden; we're on shale and in the woods. And if I did have a garden, the deer and chipmunks and squirrels and bears would eat everything anyway.