Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 I was always an avid reader, but I loved the ads for exotic ingredients in The Gourmet Cookbook. I loved the stories, and I loved the ads. I loved the way the author wrote about real life. #2 I was amazed at how my father, who had never spoken a word to anyone in New York, could speak German so fluently. He told me that when he arrived in 1926, all his German relatives...

Author of Save Me the Plums Ruth Reichl’s iconic, bestselling memoir of her time as an undercover restaurant critic for The New York Times
"Expansive and funny." —Entertainment Weekly
Ruth Reichl, world-renowned food critic and former editor in chief of Gourmet magazine, knows a thing or two about food. She also knows that as the most important food critic in the country, you need to be anonymous...

A teacher discovers how reading, writing, and imagining can help children grow, change, and even sometimes survive A few years back, children's-book writer Sam Swope gave a workshop to a third-grade class in Queens. So enchanted was he with his twenty-eight students that he "adopted" the class for three years, teaching them to write stories and poems. Almost all were new Americans (his class included students fom twenty-one countries) and Swope was...

A collection of illustrated Mother Goose rhymes such as Old Mother Hubbard and Goosey, goosey, gander.