Ruth Reichl Autographs
Ruth Reichl (/ˈraɪʃəl/ RY-shəl; born 1948) is an American chef, food writer and editor. In addition to two decades as a food critic, mainly spent at the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times, Reichl has also written cookbooks, memoirs and a novel, and has been co-producer of PBS's Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie, culinary editor for the Modern Library, host of PBS's Gourmet's Adventures With Ruth, and editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine. She has won six James Beard Foundation Awards.
Reichl's memoirs are Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table (1998), Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table, Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise, Not Becoming My Mother, and Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir (2019). In 2009, she published Gourmet Today, a 1,008 page cookbook containing over 1,000 recipes. She published her first novel, Delicious! in 2014, and, in 2015, published My Kitchen Year: 136 Recipes That Saved My Life, a memoir of recipes prepared in the year following the shuttering of Gourmet.
Born in 1948 to Ernst, a typographer, and Miriam (née Brudno), her German-Jewish refugee father and American-Jewish mother, Reichl was raised in Greenwich Village and spent time at a boarding school in Montreal as a young girl. She attended the University of Michigan, where she earned a degree in sociology in 1968 and met her first husband, the artist Douglas Hollis. In 1970 she earned an M.A. in art history, also from the University of Michigan.
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The most expensive item with a signature of Ruth Reichl (*SIGNED 2x/FIRST PRINTING* Gourmet by Ruth Reichl HCDJ *RARE*) was sold in June 2025 for $249.99 while the cheapest item (SIGNED Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise Ruth Reichl) found a new owner for $1.00 in January 2021. The month with the most items sold (7) was March 2025 with an average selling price of $24.95 for an autographed item of Ruth Reichl. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in November 2024 with $72.50 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $3.00 was September 2021. In average, an autographed item from Ruth Reichl is worth $24.95.
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