![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But her mother was a blight, whom Reichl disdains to the discomfort of the reader who wonders if she exaggerates. Raised in Manhattan and Connecticut by a docile father who was a book designer and a mother who suffered from manic depression, Reichl enjoyed such middle-class perks as a Christmas in Paris when she was 13 and high school in Canada to learn French. Reichl's knack for describing food gives one a new appreciation for the pleasures of the table, as when she writes here: ""There were eggplants the color of amethysts and plates of sliced salami and bresaola that looked like stacks of rose petals left to dry."" But when she is recalling her life, she seems unable to judge what's interesting. But that initiative isn't likely to secure her an audience for her chaotic, self-satisfied memoirs, although her restaurant reviews in the New York Times are popular. Reichl discovered early on that since she wasn't ""pretty or funny or sexy,"" she could attract friends with food instead. ![]()
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