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Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver

Ruth Reichl

Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Arts

4.6598 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Minnie questions Ruth Reichl, chef, food writer, and the last editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine. Ruth shares how her mother’s bipolar disorder helped her discover a love of cooking, how her introduction to parenthood started with a tragedy that turned into a miracle, and where to find the elusive perfect peach.

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:06.0

Did you like it when you lived here?

0:07.6

I did and I so didn't expect to.

0:09.8

I mean, I went from Berkeley with this huge Berkeley chip on my shoulder.

0:14.0

I hate LA. I hate LA people. And I loved it almost instantly.

0:18.6

It's a very easy place to live.

0:20.6

I know. I don't know if it was Jimmy Stewart. There was some great movie star who was like, the thing about LA is that you go out and you go for a swim when you're 25 and you lay down on the sun lounge room, and when you go back in the house, you're 84. It's so true. It's like, wow, no time's past at all.

0:40.1

It's like, no, you're 100.

0:41.5

No, I'm not.

0:42.3

You really are.

0:46.7

Hello, I'm Minnie Driver.

0:48.9

Welcome to Mini Questions Season 2.

0:51.7

I've always loved Proust's Questionette.

0:54.4

It was originally an 19th century parlor game where players would ask each other 35 questions

1:00.4

aimed at revealing the other player's true nature.

1:03.9

It's just the scientific method, really.

1:06.9

In asking different people the same set of questions, you can make observations about which

1:11.7

truths appear to be universal. I love this discipline. And it made me wonder, what if these

1:17.5

questions were just the jumping off point? What greater depths would be revealed if I asked

1:22.5

these questions as conversation starters with thought leaders and trailblazers across all these different disciplines.

1:29.1

So I adapted Proust questionnaire and I wrote my own seven questions that I personally think are

1:34.2

pertinent to a person's story. They are, when and where were you happiest? What is the quality

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