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Title: two steps forward, one step back
Review: I must preface this by saying that I thoroughly enjoyed Tender at the Bone and several years of Ms. Reichl's restaurant reviews in the NYTimes. I did, however, let my 23 year subscription to Gourmet Magazine lapse a few issues after she took over as editrix, because I couldn't bear the new, too casual style where I could no longer distinguish ads from articles, and celebrity seemed more important than good food.So why buy the book? Because she's a wonderful, compelling, clever writer with a keen sense of taste and style. No slave to food fashion, her descriptions of meals, both complex and simple, are sublime and witty. I could have done with less of her sexual encounters, but the late chapters about her children were lovely, though painful.Flaws and all, it was a most entertaining read.
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