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3 unusual facts about Ruth Reichl


Ruth Reichl

As of April 2011, she is also acting as critic/judge on Season 3 of the Bravo reality television show Top Chef Masters.

She and Hollis moved to Berkeley, California, where her interest in food led to her joining the collectively owned Swallow Restaurant as a chef and co-owner from 1973 to 1977, and where she played an important role in the culinary revolution taking place at the time.

Zan Stewart

His colleagues at the Times included jazz writer Don Heckman and noted food writers Colman Andrews, a friend since adolescence in Ojai, and Ruth Reichl.


Food critic

For example, Ruth Reichl is often described as a food writer/editor, who in the course of her career served as the "restaurant critic" for The New York Times and for the Los Angeles Times.


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