Chelsea's review
Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table by Ruth Reichl
Can I just say that I love that the prompt for these reviews is "What I learned from this book?" It's great!
Anyhow this book has a recipe for an extremely unhealthy mushroom soup which is delicious and the first thing that I ever made for myself that had mushrooms, because I had lived for 26 years pretty sure I didn't need mushrooms in my life. I don't really need them, but I bet that I will cook this soup again and enjoy it. In the book it is a soup for depressed rainy times, and that's fairly accurate.
At first I was a little nonplussed by Reichl's writing because she is really open about talking about her list of accolades (while describing the introversion she felt in her youth that prevented her from being open back then). I think when I look at the back of the book and see a large woman with a large curly hairdo, I think about what it will be like to be middle aged and confident to the point of posing for a photograph with some seriously wild hair. I am still in...more
Anyhow this book has a recipe for an extremely unhealthy mushroom soup which is delicious and the first thing that I ever made for myself that had mushrooms, because I had lived for 26 years pretty sure I didn't need mushrooms in my life. I don't really need them, but I bet that I will cook this soup again and enjoy it. In the book it is a soup for depressed rainy times, and that's fairly accurate.
At first I was a little nonplussed by Reichl's writing because she is really open about talking about her list of accolades (while describing the introversion she felt in her youth that prevented her from being open back then). I think when I look at the back of the book and see a large woman with a large curly hairdo, I think about what it will be like to be middle aged and confident to the point of posing for a photograph with some seriously wild hair. I am still in...more
