Why hasn’t someone called me up and asked if I want to be a food reviewer for the New York Times? Ruth Reichl’s book is a riot. Her mom is above and beyond any character I could every believe existed in real live…who serves moldy food to guests?!! (She scraped off the fuzz of course.) But beginning to end, Tender at the Bone keeps you laughing and it’s recipes keep you drooling. From the east coast to Italy to North Africa to the house in Berkeley that is everything that Tony Bourdain hates about California, it’s a riot. You’d think that with her love of and relationship with food, she’d have grown up with her mom making wonderful dishes. But no, it was more like Lenny Henry’s character, Chef, he cooked to survive his mother’s heinous concoctions.

I loved this book…I couldn’t put it down and I finished it in 2 days. I’ve already ordered book 2, Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table and I’ll let you know when I finish that one too!