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Working as a public relations hotline consultant for a once-prestigious culinary magazine, Billie Breslin unexpectedly enters a world of New York restaurateurs and artisanal purveyors while reading World War II letters exchanged between a plucky 12-year-old and James Beard.

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Main Author: Reichl, Ruth
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Random House, [2014].
Edition:First Edition.
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Life change events > Fiction.
Hiding places > Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 > Ohio > Akron > Fiction.
Letters > Fiction.
Akron (Ohio) > Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) > Fiction.
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Summary:Working as a public relations hotline consultant for a once-prestigious culinary magazine, Billie Breslin unexpectedly enters a world of New York restaurateurs and artisanal purveyors while reading World War II letters exchanged between a plucky 12-year-old and James Beard.
Physical Description:380 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN:9781400069620 (acid-free paper)
1400069629 (acid-free paper)
Author Notes:Ruth Reichl was born in New York City on January 16, 1948. In 1970, she graduated from the University of Michigan with a M.A. in art history. She became a food writer and magazine editor for New West magazine. Later she worked for the Los Angeles Times, first as the restaurant editor and then food editor. She received two James Beard Awards. In 1993, she moved back to New York to become the restaurant critic for The New York Times. She was the editor in chief of Gourmet Magazine for ten years.

She is the author of the memoirs Garlic and Sapphires, Tender at the Bone, and Comfort Me with Apples and the novel Delicious! Her latest book, My Kitchen Year: 136 Recipes That Saved My Life, was published in 2015.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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