Choices We Made: Gourmet or Go Home? (with Ruth Reichl)
Choice Words with Samantha Bee
Lemonada Media
4.4 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Renowned restaurant critic, food writer, and magazine editor Ruth Reichl joins Sam to talk about why taking a job as the editor-in-chief of Gourmet Magazine was such a hard decision, and how it ended up changing her life. They talk about getting paid to do a job you would do for free, her new documentary “Food and Country,” thoughts on meal kits, and their recurring waitressing nightmares.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, is this an okay time? |
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| 1:17.2 | I am recording this intro the day after the election. |
| 1:33.6 | And so it's going to be a really short intro today because I'm just not, I don't have a lot of words in this moment. I'm pretty shell-shocked. I'm so tired. I want to say something smart and pithy, but you know what? I don't have too much right now. |
| 1:40.7 | Elections, boy, they take a lot out of us. And this one has taken it all. So, yes, |
| 1:46.2 | I mean, of course, I have a serious choice for everyone who decided to give Donald Trump |
| 1:51.9 | a second chance. And yet, again, somehow at the same time, no, no great words at all, just a big, deep sigh. Not sure what to say. |
| 2:07.2 | I guess we all unclench our jaw and roll our shoulders back and, and get busy. I don't know. |
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