Ruth Reichl draws on her career as a high-profile food writer and editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine in her first novel — “Delicious”. It’s the story of a magazine writer with a superhuman sense of taste, who discovers a secret cache of letters from the legendary chef and cookbook writer James Beard.
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