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Miami Book Fair Going Strong This Week

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books

Read More: Barbara Kingsolver, Tracey Kidder, Books, Margaret Atwood, Mary Karr Lit, Book Fair, Lit, Author Events, Book Fairs, Barbara Kingsolver Lacuna, Margaret Atwood Year of the Flood, Authors, Miami Book Fair, Joyce Carol Oates, Year of the Flood, Orhan Pamuk, Ruth Reichl, Author Readings, Gourmet, Sherman Alexie, Lacuna, Jonathan Lethem, Mary Karr, Reading, Miami, Isabella Rossellini, Books News

All this week, Miami is celebrating the world of literature with its annual Book Fair. Running from November 8 - 15 and open to the public for a small...

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Class Warfare: Ruth Reichl vs. Rachel Ray

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 10.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Pbs, Food Network, Bernie Shaw, Bobby Flay, Crossfire, Bill Zimmerman, Pat Buchanan, Dan Schorr, Mary Alice Waters, Marion Cunningham, Cnn, Ruth Reichl, Mario Batali, Gourmet, Jacques Pepin, Nelson Rockefeller, James Beard, Gourmet Magazine, Julia Child, Media News
Reese Schonfeld

Condé Nast, which sells its advertising based on the size and demographics of its subscribers, decided to go with mass instead of class, and closed Gourmet down.

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Ruth Reichl To Write Book On Conde Nast Years

New York Times | Kim Severson | Posted 10.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Conde Nast, Books, Ruth Reichl, Gourmet Magazine, Media News

"I'm just sad but when I'm done being sad I'll be working on my next book," she said. What book? Ruth Reichl: The Conde Nast years. That's not the ti...

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Farewell, Gourmet (From Your Intern)

Kate Schmier | Posted 10.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Conde Nast, Ruth Reichl, Magazines, Conde Nast McKinsey, Gourmet, Gourmet Magazine, Media News
Kate Schmier

The industry has always been deadline-driven and goal-oriented, but now, there's a heightened focus on the bottom line--which doesn't leave much room for "teaching" meetings or farewell get-togethers.

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The Closing of the American Dream

Danielle Crittenden | Posted 10.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Ruth Reichl, Conde Nast, Bon Appetit, Gourmet Magazine, Gourmet, Media News
Danielle Crittenden

Perhaps you aren't taking the sudden shuttering of Gourmet magazine quite as hard as I am, but let me tell you, my oven has gone dark.

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The Best Porn in Print: R.I.P. Gourmet Magazine

Gerald Sindell | Posted 10.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Pornography, Gourmet, Food, Porn, Ruth Reichl, Media News
Gerald Sindell

I wasn't the subscriber to Gourmet. That was my mate. I was serious about being serious and dwelling on food seemed to me to be about as distinctive an occupation as thinking about sex.

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When Branding Isn't Enough: The Demise of Gourmet

Elissa Altman | Posted 10.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Gourmet, Branding, Publishing, Ruth Reichl, Media News
Elissa Altman

To quote my cousin Howard, "You can't eat prestige." If you're an executive looking at the bottom line in black and white, how do you monetize the meaning of a brand?

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Gourmet's Adventures With Ruth: Magazine Preps TV Show

MediaWeek | Posted 09.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Gourmet, Conde Nast, Gourmet's Adventures Iwth Ruth, Ruth Reichl, Magazines, Gourmet Magazine, Media News

There's certainly no shortage of TV shows blending food and travel, but Gourmet magazine is betting there's room for one more. On Oct. 17, the Condè ...

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Julia (and Other Famed Cooks) and Moi

Lea Lane | Posted 09.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Barbara Kafka, Food/Drink, Sara Moulton, Jacques Pepin, Claudia Roden, Cooking Legends, Ruth Reichl, Julia Child, James Beard, Julie and Julia, Cookbook Authors, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Living News
Lea Lane

I was privileged eventually to meet Julia Child (see below) and the following legendary cooking writers who each connected with each other, and for a bit, with me.

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The Shelf Talker: Arugula, Poetry, and New Best Friends

Kevin Smokler | Posted 05.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Authors, Booktour, Books, Cara-Black, Rebecca-Faust, Food, Ruth-Reichl, Walter-Mosley, Poetry, Sxsw, Media News
Kevin Smokler

How a mind like food writer Ruth Reichl's works is more important her policy position on putting bread in the refrigerator.

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Gourmet's Ruth Reichl on Twitter and the Recession's Silver Lining

Abi Wright | Posted 04.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Gourmet-Magazine, Columbia University, Cooking, Ruth Reichl, Food, David Foster Wallace, Journalism, Recession, Magazines, Twitter, Delacorte Lecture, Gourmet Magazine, Columbia Journalism School, Media News
Abi Wright

As reported in the New York Times Monday, circulation at cooking magazines is going up as the stock market goes down. Ruth Reichl advised journalism students to specialize.

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David Chang: the Porcine Prince Respects the Circle of Life and Worries about the Future of Food

Louise McCready | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Esquire Magazine, Chefs, Ferran Adria, Big Tobacco, Small Business, Andre Soltner, Cooking, Ruth Reichl, Restaurants, Food, Alice Waters, Momofuku, Wylie Dufresne, Sustainable Farming, New York, David Chang, Green News
Louise McCready

David Chang: I'm not an economist, so I'm not the one to say anything about this, but it's going to be very difficult to feed everybody when America doesn't produce food anymore

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Ruth Reichl on a White House Garden for a Nation of Foodies

Louise McCready | Posted 10.16.2009 | Style

Read More: Greenwich Village, White House, New York, California, Scott Peacock, Michael White, London, Paris, David Chang, Michael Pollan, Marco Canora, Ruth Reichl, Mario Batali, Dan Barber, Food, White House Garden, Style News
Louise McCready

"I think the thing that you can count on -- this is the silver lining in this recession that we seem to be going in to -- is that I think people are going to start eating more vegetables"

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Dan Barber on How the Next President Should Initiate the "Food Deal"

Louise McCready | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Food, Food Prices, Presidential Candidates, Iraq, Food Crisis, Ruth Reichl, Dan Barber, Farming, Farm Aid, Farm Bills, Green News
Louise McCready

"You can't delve into this issue without being invested in the political consequences of what we're encouraging our farmers to grow, what kind of policies are being written."

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