Welcome to Lenolium Knife and Fork, a food podcast hosted by two film critics.

I'm Dave White, and my co-host is Alonza Durald.

They say hello.

Our usual podcast, Lenolium Knife, is the one where we discuss the current cinema.

And so today we have a hybrid episode of food X-knife. Yeah, food and movies.

So this particular podcast, Linolia Knife and Fork, is about our other favorite subject, food.

And it's normally part of our Patreon subscription situation, but not today.

You are getting it for free because we have a special guest and we want as many people

to hear about what she's doing as possible.

Her name is Ruth Reichel.

She is one of the country's most well-known food writers, and her list of accomplishments is long.

She has written novels, memoirs, cookbooks.

She was editor-in-chief of Gourmet Magazine for many years.

Her latest book is called The Paris novel that came out earlier this year.

And in the world of a linoleum knife, she is also the person who taught us about chef's warehouse.

Yes.

For which we are forever in your debt.

Ruth was a guest on this show with Margie in March or April.

Very early in the lockdown.

2020.

And you explained that at that time, Chef's Warehouse was selling directly to people at their homes because, and that place saved our pantry during 2020.

And I remember at that time, people were laughing at us because we bought a 50-pound bag of flour for a dirt-cheap amount of money.

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