The Life and Death of Gourmet: Ruth Reichl Tells All
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
Milk Street Radio
4.2 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
We chat with Ruth Reichl about the glory days and final days of Gourmet magazine. Plus, Egyptian street food in Berlin; Alex Aïnouz's hotel room cooking hacks; and Mini Almond Cakes with Spiced Chocolate.
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| 1:29.9 | The double wears product chronicled the world of Vogue magazines and a wind tour. |
| 1:34.0 | Another CondiNAS magazine, Gourmet, offers a similar but a more tragic story, from its heyday |
| 1:39.6 | to its closing in 2009. Today we chat with Gourmet's final editor, Chief Ruth Reichel, |
| 1:45.2 | about the magazine's rise and fall. |
| 1:49.4 | Closing up was not only emotional, but also just physically complicated, and someone said, |
| 1:55.1 | how long do we have? And size said, oh it's immaterial. And we also have to sigh of relief, |
| 2:02.2 | because we thought, oh, this is going to be slow, you know, we'll have time. And he said, your |
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