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# 4.5/5 star rating from 4,356 readers Top #53 in Gastronomy Essays category Hardcover edition for lasting quality Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir

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## Summary

> 📖 Taste the story, savor the success.

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## Key Features

- • **A Timeless Hardcover Keepsake:** Own a beautifully bound memoir that’s as durable as it is inspiring.
- • **A Culinary Journey Like No Other:** Dive into Ruth Reichl’s authentic memoir blending food, leadership, and personal growth.
- • **From Hippie Roots to NYC Powerhouse:** Experience the rare story of a woman breaking barriers in a male-dominated industry.
- • **Critically Acclaimed & Loved by Thousands:** Join a community of 4,356 readers who gave it a stellar 4.5-star rating.
- • **Sensory Storytelling That Transcends Pages:** Mouth-watering descriptions and emotional depth that connect on every level.

## Overview

Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir is Ruth Reichl’s bestselling hardcover memoir, ranked #53 in Gastronomy Essays and praised for its honest, sensory-rich storytelling. With over 4,300 reviews averaging 4.5 stars, it chronicles her groundbreaking journey as a female leader in the culinary publishing world, making it a must-read for professionals craving inspiration and authenticity.

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Review: Ruth Reichl is Everything - Read all of the Reichl books. She is a wonderful story teller. This one about being a woman business leader during a time such things were rare is a great read. Authentic voice 100%
Review: A Yarn Spun Well - There is a refreshing honesty about Reichl's writing. Initially, she didn't quite have the machinations to succeed, and you felt her angst in the writing. After all, she was a hippie from Berkeley thrown into the intense New York publishing world, a world that pulled hard at the soul of the west coast transplant. While Reichl took advantage of the perks offered with her new position, she didn't completely embrace that lifestyle or what it provided. Her husband and son were pivotal in keeping her as grounded as she could be and still maintain the magazine as she had been directed. Reichl was able to delineate that discomfited push/pull throughout the book, as she is, foremost, a writer. Reichl is a superb storyteller and knows how to spin a yarn. She plays with the senses, delivering mouth-watering terms to ordinary foods and lovely descriptions to places and people. The 9-11 piece brought me to tears. In the end, when the magazine closed, she seemed relieved to have slipped free from the invisible bonds that constrained her. She could finally take a deep breath. The middle could have used additional editing, but all in all, a great read.

## Features

- Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir Hardcover – April 2, 2019

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #636,663 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #53 in Gastronomy Essays (Books) #75 in Culinary Biographies & Memoirs #2,346 in Memoirs (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,356 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Ruth Reichl is Everything
*by L***. on October 5, 2025*

Read all of the Reichl books. She is a wonderful story teller. This one about being a woman business leader during a time such things were rare is a great read. Authentic voice 100%

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Yarn Spun Well
*by D***R on July 12, 2019*

There is a refreshing honesty about Reichl's writing. Initially, she didn't quite have the machinations to succeed, and you felt her angst in the writing. After all, she was a hippie from Berkeley thrown into the intense New York publishing world, a world that pulled hard at the soul of the west coast transplant. While Reichl took advantage of the perks offered with her new position, she didn't completely embrace that lifestyle or what it provided. Her husband and son were pivotal in keeping her as grounded as she could be and still maintain the magazine as she had been directed. Reichl was able to delineate that discomfited push/pull throughout the book, as she is, foremost, a writer. Reichl is a superb storyteller and knows how to spin a yarn. She plays with the senses, delivering mouth-watering terms to ordinary foods and lovely descriptions to places and people. The 9-11 piece brought me to tears. In the end, when the magazine closed, she seemed relieved to have slipped free from the invisible bonds that constrained her. She could finally take a deep breath. The middle could have used additional editing, but all in all, a great read.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ plum the depths
*by J***Y on April 10, 2019*

Ruth Reichl knows about good food, and she knows good food writing. After years as the food critic for The New York Times, and then for years before at the Los Angeles Times, she decided to accept the job as Editor-in-Chief at Gourmet magazine. Reichl had a long relationship with Gourmet, from when she first found the magazine in a dusty used bookstore on an outing with her book designer father, through the years it lost its unique voice, through to her reign as editor. She was able to bring back the spark that Gourmet had, to let her creative team run wild with imagination and panache. She inspired the best young writers to its pages. She brought life to its covers. She helped unite the chefs of New York in celebrations and in charity work. Save Me the Plums is her memoir of her decade at Gourmet, from her early days where she felt she was out of her depth, through the years where the magazine recaptured its spirit and its voice, to the final days, where nothing was able to save the magazine from the depths of the nation’s financial devastation. Reichl’s stories are beautifully told, filled with textures and flavors, nuance and surprise, and just like the best gourmet meal, a dash of magic. I love reading her stories. She has a way of explaining how things change as they stay the same and how you can move forward by staying in place. And that story of Paris and the black dress? Absolutely breathtaking! If you’ve read Ruth Reichl before, then you know how special her writing is. You should buy this and devour it immediately. If you’ve not read her before, then my advice is the same. Start with this one, or a different memoir, or her novel Delicious!, or one of her cookbooks (I adore her 2015 cookbook My Kitchen Year on audio—yes, I do know how that sounds, and believe me, you do want to listen to a cookbook on audio!). But give yourself the gift of Reichl’s writing. After you read one, be prepared. You’ll be left hungry for more. Galleys for Save Me the Plums were provided by Random House through NetGalley, with many thanks.

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