In preparation, we jotted down five delicious gems from My Kitchen Year to whet your appetite: On Saturday, Reichl will swing through Portland on her current book tour (see details below). My Kitchen Year testifies to the comfort that cooking can bestow on us, in the best and the worst of times. It’s a food book for the times, part Twitter feed, part emotional memoir and comfort food anthem, delivered with bitter pills, soul searching, and the realization that in the cold dark of night, nothing soothes like a hot fudge sundae. In one inspired moment, she tweets: “On the first day of my new life I work, alone, to frosted windows in NY City.” Then she makes an uncompromising ma po tofu “blistered with chiles warrior food.” From lonely meals salvaged from fridge leftovers to Babette-like feasts for friends, her stories are intimate and hard-won every recipe a little treasure. The book details Gourmet’s swift fall from glory and Reichl’s retreat to her home kitchen. With this, we’re plunged into the abrupt, shock-and-awe closing of legendary Gourmet magazine, where she ruled the roost as editor-in-chief for a decade. It’s like Jack Bauer getting called back to CTU. The story begins in October 2009, when Reichl, in Seattle for an interview on Gourmet Today, the company’s landmark cookbook, gets the call: drop everything return to New York.
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