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Ruth Reichls bestselling memoir of her time as an undercover restaurant critic for

Ruth Reichl, world-renowned food critic and former editor in chief of 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 when reviewing some of the most high-profile establishments in the biggest restaurant town in the worlda charge she took very seriously, taking on the guise of a series of eccentric personalities. In , Reichl reveals the comic absurdity, artifice, and excellence to be found in the sumptuously appointed stages of the epicurean world and gives usalong with some of her favorite recipes and reviewsher remarkable reflections on how ones outer appearance can influence ones inner character, expectations, and appetites, not to mention the quality of service one receives.

As a memento of her time at the she gives us this wonderful book, which is funnyat times laugh-out-loud funnyand smart and wise. Jonathan Yardley,