<![CDATA[Gawker: ruth reichl]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: ruth reichl]]> http://gawker.com/tag/ruthreichl http://gawker.com/tag/ruthreichl <![CDATA[Foodies Get Smug, Then Porn]]> Ruth Riechl got smug over her soul-food meal on a train and Michael Bauer's readers got porn from his tweets. The Twitterati learned to watch what they ate.

San Francisco Chronicle food and wine editor Michael Bauer blamed a "gremlin" for the porn surprise in his Twitter feed. His readers blamed themselves for not consuming his feed when it was fresher (and more porny).

Radio host Billy Bush basically said you're either with Twitter or you're with the terrorists.

Writer and former Valleywag-er Melissa Gira Grant finally observed mass-market gossip in its native habitat.

Former Gourmet editor Ruth Reichl might not have her food magazine, but she still has her "smug" sense of culinary superiority.

Science writer Mark Drapeau will not join your stupid "wave."



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]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5391406&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Ruth Reichl Does Not Read The Internet]]> Former Gourmet editor Ruth Reichl does not read this blog or Craigslist, which is causing her all sorts of trouble, in the media.

EXAMPLE ONE: Gatecrasher reports that "There was no official word on why Reichl failed to show up at a fete hosted by Alan Batt in honor of Gourmet [yesterday], but her absence sure fueled the dish among the city's top foodies." That would be this one. Apparently, notes on Craigslist aren't the best way to get in touch with Ruth Reichl. Live and learn.

EXAMPLE TWO: Deborah Solomon interviewed Reichl for the NYT magazine this weekend. Look at this outrage:

Did you see Jon Stewart the other night, when he made a Gourmet joke?
I did not. What did he say?

[Explanation of his joke]
That's great! I'm amazed no one has told me that.

No one except us, Ruth Reichl. Why do you ignore us so, Ruth Reichl? Hey, your picture is real nice.

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5384922&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Madonna, Guy Ritchie in Fierce "Retard" Battle]]> Divorces are ugly business. That's what we can learn from today's gossip roundup, which includes Madonna and Guy Ritchie acting like children, Peter Brant taking on Stephanie Seymour's fashion habit and, on another note, the return of Tina Fey's Palin.


  • Madonna once called Guy Ritchie "retarded." Now he's getting revenge by calling her "retarded," too. Shit, celebrities can be so retarded. [Page Six]

  • Oh, good! The gloves are coming off in Peter Brant's divorce from Stephanie Seymour. Court papers say that Seymour, who's famous for being a model, spends $50,000 on clothes every month and has been stealing art from the mansion she shared with Brant, who owns Interview. Yee-haw! [Page Six]

  • Courtney Love, who posts a scary amount of late night tweets, would like to thank her parents for her ass, but nothing else. [Twitter]

  • Get excited, people, because Tina Fey will again impersonate Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live. [NYDN]

  • Conrad Murray, the doctor everyone thinks killed Michael Jackson, may be arrested after failing to show up to family court to discuss the $13,000 he owes in back child support. [ET]

  • Dina Lohan has a line of shoes, which we hope will be more bearable than Lindsay's pathetic fashion line. [Page Six]

  • Kanye West loves Alexander McQueen sooo much. But in the straightest way possible, of course. [Kanye]

  • Heidi Fleiss was in a "horrific" car crash back in June. Don't worry, though, she's as alright as she was before the crash, which we suppose isn't saying much, but it's something. [TMZ]

  • Wow! So, Gourmet's closing's a big deal, huh? It's so big, in fact, that a cafe worker at Newark's airport recognized former editor Ruth Reichl and gave her a sandwich. If only all former Conde staffers were getting such treatment... [Page Six]
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5376952&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[He Can Haz Gourmet?]]> A LOLcat mogul made a perhaps jokey offer to become Ruth Reichl's boss; Diablo Cody's baby craving became overpowering and Joy Behar made a David Letterman zinger. The Twitterati were all about wanting what you can't have.

Gourmet Editor Ruth Reichl took a moment to tweet as she packed up her office, made redundant by Condé Nast.

The guy behind I Can Has Cheezburger offered to take over — err, "Haz" — Reichl's magazine.

Diablo Cody got maternal in her own unique way.

Joy Behar might be late to the Letterman scandal, but she'll make up for it by being pun-ny.

Nilay Patel of Engadget simply wants the day's tech news to actually be new. Is that so much to ask?


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]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5374879&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The Twitterati Feel Awkward, Innocuous, and Sad]]> Did you know Arianna Huffington's godson is so afraid of Gawker, he can't say its name aloud on Twitter? Or that Ruth Reichl can be bought? The things one learns from the media's Twitter addicts:

Huffington Post legacy hire Matthew Palevsky defended uniformly innocuous Timesman Sewell Chan's Twitter honor.

Nation correspondent Ari Melber captured the sad sadness of a sad politican's sad press conference.

Gourmet editor Ruth Reichl felt the consequences of auctioning herself off to the highest bidder.

Chicago Tribune leisureblogger Bill Daley became the guy who complains about the copier.

Fox DC anchor Brian Bolter felt a false sense of relief.

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]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5239966&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Saucy Twitterati Dream of Puppies Dressed as Gene Simmons]]> What did I learn from Twitter today? Diablo Cody thinks dicks are dicks, Ruth Reichl makes a mean Gene Simmons, and Michelle Obama has her own big-media stalkerblog. Excellent! More Twitterings from the media elite:

Juno scribe Diablo Cody talked about dicks.

Washington Post tech reporter Rob Pegoraro discussed his email habits.

Gourmet editor Ruth Reichl discomfited everyone who hadn't realized she was dressed up as Gene Simmons.

Chicago Sun-Times D.C. bureau chief Lynn Sweet fed our Michelle Obama obsession.

Today Show videoblog correspondent Sara Haines looked forward to puppies.

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]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5230252&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Did Bruce Willis Audition Mates?]]> Mid-week, everyone needs to freshen up. Barbara Walters craves a clean break from ABC, reportedly; Robert Pattinson needs a shower and Bruce Willis might never be able to wash off the slime.

  • Bruce Willis supposedly met his wife, 24 years younger, through scuzzy casting calls he set up for the movie Perfect Strangers. Modeling agencies supplied candidates for minor roles; Willis did the "auditions" and successful candidates got maybe a sex scene or minor speaking role. Suddenly the phrase "what I've always wanted to do is direct" makes a lot more sense. [P6]
  • Barbara Walters is planning to quit ABC this summer to have more time for herself, according to "industry insiders." [National Enquirer]
  • As part of her PR breakup from Chris Brown, Rihanna is "taking a beak" from the relationship, because why do something rash like actually really break up with an abusive boyfriend? In the meantime, cautious Rihanna might buy Jerry Seinfeld's old house, for $7 million.
  • At Condé Nast, the frugal editors (David Remnick, Ruth Reichl) take the subway; the posh editors still use car services; and the most foolish editors have their limos waiting for them right in front of 4 Times Square, so Si Newhouse knows who to fire. [Post]
  • Octo-mom Nadya Suleman was "a stripper," in the sense that she danced topless for one night, and then quit in disgust. Oddly enough, Suleman's now-former nurses had a similar employment experience.
  • Natasha Richardson donated her organs. [P6]
  • Robert Pattinson never showers. He admitted this like two months ago. Bet his co-stars — "he completely reeks," said one — wish they had read Robert Pattinson Online a bit more diligently.


]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5183441&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Anne Hathaway Has A New Unsavory Boyfriend]]>

  • Anne Hathaway's new actor boyfriend "went after all the young heiresses" when he was at Brown University, which makes him as terrible for her as jailed fraudster Raffaello Follieri, according to Page Six's tipster. [P6]
  • Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes spent their second wedding anniversary apart, on opposite coasts. Make of that what you will. [Mail]
  • The longtime editor-in-chief of Gourmet, Ruth Reichl couldn't get into her own party because she wasn't on the press list. I would not want to be that event planner. [P6]
  • Sumner Redstone, purportedly to his ex-girlfriend on his ex-wife, in a restaurant: "I'm finally rid of her." [P6]
  • Angelina Jolie forced husband Brad Pritt to make an angry call to his ex Jennifer Aniston, in which Pitt "went off" in a "quivering" voice. This according to the tabloid that reported that Aniston was pregnant with twins by John Mayer. [Star]
  • After returning from a summer of TV filming in Spain, Gwyneth Paltrow didn't visit her husband but instead spent some private time with a Miami billionaire, including a jaunt on his yacht with Kate Hudson. [P6]
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5092904&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Ruth Reichl Disses Mom, Too]]> 78599593OK, this is way worse than Candice Bergen not crying at her mom's funeral earlier tonight: "Gourmet editor in chief [Ruth Reichl] told attendees... that her mother 'was everything I didn't want to be, and to this day I wake up every morning grateful not to be her...' Penguin Press, inspired by Reichl's speech, has signed a contract with her to write a tome about the meaning of motherhood past and present." [WWD]

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5007937&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Is Ruth Reichl Writing A Gothic Novel?]]> Gourmet editor and former Times restaurant critic Ruth Reichl just got back from the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire where she was working on a non-food-related novel. Though Observer eat, drink, pray reporter Doree Shafrir notes Reichl's at-rest aesthetic is "vaguely goth," she doesn't ask how the food was up there. A shame really, because this is how author and former Colony resident Andrea Cohen described it in MacDowell's pamphlet on what to expect from the experience.

Breakfast Oh, injustice that my favorite foods — berry flapjacks a-sea in maple syrup; nutty oat granola; butter-soaked French toast — are served at an hour when the muse has suggested she may visit. That she generally stands me up, alas, is not permission to abandon my post. Which is to say I don't get out much to breakfast at MacDowell. One exception: After waking at 2 a.m. and writing a few, good, solid hours, I ambled in a fog (both literal and metaphorical) up the dirt road for the morning meal. What bliss for a poet, not long past sunrise, to feel she's sung for her muffins and eggs. And been reminded that breakfast turns out to be like so many crucial rituals in life: It's the idea of the thing, not mere reality, that drives the oxen home.
Okay! But how did it feel upon leaving?
The worst thing is receiving a menu in the lunch basket just before leaving MacDowell. Is that how the dying girl feels, catching the scent of a cherry pie baking, knowing she'll be gone before the crust has cooled?
Yes, but would you go so far to say the flapjacks are scrumptulescent?

The Book of Ruth: Gourmet Editor Reichl Ferments Mysterious Novel At MacDowell Colony [NYO]

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=314437&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Media Bubble: Lickety Splits]]> &#8226; Newsweek stands resolute against Gawker's jeers that "while [its recent Annie Leibovitz] story tells of Leibovitz's life and her long-term friendship with the late Susan Sontag, it skips around the question of Leibovitz's sexual orientation." As long as we're jeering, how come there was no mention of Annie running off with the nanny? [NYP]
&#8226; No uncomfortable questions were asked at the Bill Keller/Patricia Dunn dinner. Thank God, that would be so tactless. [NYO]
&#8226; For those of you who find Rachael Ray insufferably cloying, which should be all of you, maybe Gourmet's Ruth Reichl will be an improvement. RELATED: We get it, Bill Buford, you like cooking. [WWD]

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=203547&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Andrews Exits Saveur For The Comfort Of Reichl's Apples]]> ca.jpgColman Andrews, co-founder and EIC of food porn bible Saveur, has left the magazine and is moving to Gourmet. Keith Kelly reports that, "Andrews and Gourmet Editor-in-Chief Ruth Reichl go back to their days at New West magazine, when he was the food editor and Reichl worked for him." How way back? After the jump, an excerpt from a 2001 interview with Reichl explains.

Consider the way she writes about her affair. At 31, she meets a man she refers to only as "the food editor." He's pompous, she thinks, and older; she, in her turn, tries too hard to seem knowledgeable and finds herself waxing fervent about black truffles, champagne vintages and tiny-gauge caviars — subjects she knows nothing about.

But when they have dinner at L.A.'s legendary Ma Maison, all pretenses drop away. The beluga caviar was "seductively fruity." There were "baked oysters wrapped in lettuce, sprinkled with caviar and bathed in beurre blanc [and] terrine de foie gras with warm toast. The flavors danced and the soft substances slid down my throat."
The next morning, waking up in his bed, she is momentarily horrified. "What was it that I found so irresistible about this man? I replayed the night in my head — the caviar, the oysters, the foie gras, the cigars. It had been like a wonderful dream, all my fantasies made real." Fantasies about "the man from another time, the bon vivant who had unabashedly devoted himself to food."

As it happens, the lover was Colman Andrews, now editor of Saveur magazine, and in a friendly way Reichl's rival, since it was the success of the extravagant, literary and sensual Saveur that convinced the publishers of the increasingly frumpy Gourmet that it needed a bonne vivante of its own. The affair, which hadn't been public knowledge until the book's galleys got around, will undoubtedly be a food trendies' gossip sensation, but it really says more about their mutual sensual attentions, and how we have all benefited from their fearlessness.

Man, we need to read us some more Gourmet. And smoke a cigarette.

SAVEUR COFOUNDER ANDREWS EXITS FOR GOURMET [NYP]
A second serving of sensual memories from food writer Ruth Reichl [Bookpage]

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=191555&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Media Christmas: Sing Along With Bruce Wasserstein]]> ~mediaxmas.gifThere's a big night of Media Christmas parties tonight, including the one we're perhaps most excited for: New York's karaoke party at Encore. (Though we wouldn't mind being invited for dinner at Ruth Reichl's, either, as is her Gourmet editorial staff is this evening.)

We have little to report from last night, except that we're told jagermeister shots were involved at the Observer's festivities. And for earlier in the week, can hear that CNN's party was terrible — wagged a CNNer, "It was awful, boring... when your biggest (and only) draws are Soledad and Miles plus the flacks, hey, what do you expect?" — and Martha Stewart's was Djed by Grandmaster Flash. Commented the MSLO spy, "I dunno if thats a low point in his career, or for Omnimedia."

Herewith, tonight's lineup:

Allure, Paladar
AMI (business), Rock Candy
Cargo, Centrico (lunch)
Court TV, Pressure
Forbes (business), Jazz Standard/Blue Smoke
Gourmet (edit), EIC Ruth Reichl's apartment
Glamour (sales), Roxy
GQ, La Esquina
The Nation, Pravda
New York, Encore
Wenner Media (all), N/A

The latest version of the complete list is after the jump.

Monday, December 5
Daily News, Copacabana

Tuesday, December 6
Alfred A. Knopf, Punch
Lucky, Hotel QT
Playboy (editorial, etc.), Providence
SourceMedia (nee Thompson Media), Cipriani Wall Street
Teen Vogue (edit), La Esquina

Wednesday, December 7
Cookie, EIC Pilar Guzman's apartment
The New Yorker, Pastis
Village Voice, The Canal Room

Thursday, December 8
Bauer Publishing (all), Rockleigh Country Club, Rockleigh, N.J.
Cablevision, B.B. King's
CBS, the chairman's floor at Black Rock, the CBS Building
Disney/ABC, Roseland
Hearst Magazines (all), Tavern on the Green
LHJ, Avra
MTV Networks, Hammerstein Ballroom
Simon & Schuster, The Supper Club
Time Out New York, Stitch Bar & Lounge
Today show, Fresco by Scotto (brunch) then The Falls
Travel + Leisure (edit), 60 Thompson

Friday, December 9, 2005
CBS Evening News, Eugene
Fox News Channel, Rosie O'Grady's (in addition to next week's big News Corp. party)
Good Morning America, Rock Candy
Google, Skylight
Metro New York, Encore
Scripps Networks (Food Network, HGTV, etc.), SAPA (afternoon)

Monday, December 12
Departures (edit), Double Seven
Glamour (edit), Aspen
House & Garden, Fred's at Barneys
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, The Waterfront
Mediabistro, Obvia
Slate, Bubble Lounge
Teen Vogue (business), Employees Only
Vice, Fat Baby
VNU Business Publications, Capitale
Vogue and Men's Vogue, La Esquina

Tuesday, December 13
CNN, Time Warner Center
Esquire, the Esquire apartment at The Sculpture for Living
Fast Company and Inc., Blondie's
Forbes (editorial), Arte's
Hearst Magazines(all EICs and publishers), Le Bernardin (lunch)
PR Week, Bed
USA Today (NYC staff), Osteria Stella

Wednesday, December 14
The Daily Show, Movida
Gourmet (sales), The Hotel on Rivington
HBO, Marriott Marquis
New York Observer, Beacon
Rodale, Django

Thursday, December 15
Allure, Paladar
AMI (business), Rock Candy
Cargo, Centrico (lunch)
Court TV, Pressure
Forbes (business), Jazz Standard/Blue Smoke
Gourmet (edit), EIC Ruth Reichl's apartment
Glamour (sales), Roxy
GQ, La Esquina
The Nation, Pravda
New York, Encore
Wenner Media (all), N/A

Friday, December 16
Financial Times (New York staff), editor Lionel Barber's apartment
Lifetime Networks, Dodger Stages
News Corporation, Hilton New York
(plus New York Post afterparty at Siberia)

Monday, December 19
Dennis Publishing, Glo
FHM, Gypsey Tea
Meredith shelter books (all), Via
W, Astra

Tuesday, December 20
Jane, R&R
Muscle & Fitness, Tao (lunch)

Wednesday, December 21
Harper&#8217;s, Pravda
The Forward, Mo Pitkin's

No dates known
Food & Wine (business), Pegu Club
Food & Wine (edit), Spotted Pig
Departures (business), The Modern
Fitness, Otto (lunch)
Modern Bride and Elegant Bride, EIC Antonia van der Meer's apartment
Travel + Leisure (business), publisher Ellen Asmodeo Giglio's apartment

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=143446&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Media Bubble: 'Observer' Admires Its Elders]]> &#8226; Murdoch, Newhouse, Philbin, and friends: Meet the city's media Power Geezers. [NYO]
&#8226; CBS wants Katie so badly that they're offering her a pay cut. [NYP]
&#8226; Food and the City: HBO buys rights to Ruth Reichl's memoirs for a new memoir. [WWD]
&#8226; A new front in the War on Christmas: Plano, Texas, where the school district bans kids from wearing red and green, according to Defender of the Faith O'Reilly. Except for one thing: It's not true. [Dallas Morning News]
&#8226; LAT to shutter national edition, ending its print presence in Washington and New York. Yeah, we're as surprised as you are to discover it had a print presence in New York. [NYT]

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=143103&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Media Bubble: 'Teen People' Kills Article on N**i Teen Singers]]> &#8226; Teen People kills story on Nazi bubblegum popsters after learning that a staffer promised not to use the words "Nazi," "supremacist," or "hate" in discussing the hateful white supremacists, and after Holocaust survivors picket Time Warner HQ. Keith Kelly calls incident a test for new Time Inc. EIC John Huey, but we gotta wonder about what this means for new Teen People m.e. Lori Majewski. [NYP]
&#8226; Per the latest Plamegate wrinkle, Mr. Wonkette notes that Bob Woodward isn't "the preeminent investigative reporter of his generation;" he's just a highly placed transcriptionist. [NYO]
&#8226; From just after the invasion until last week's withdrawal excitement, U.S. media did a shitty job of covering the Iraq war, [NYO]
&#8226; Ruth Reichl will be making miso-rubbed turkey with gravy, persimmon cranberry sauce, and rustic porcini onion stuffing for Thanksgiving. [WWD]
&#8226; Did Anna Wintour bring down the Variety spinoff V Life? She certainly thinks so. [Radar]
&#8226; Two Bloomberg L.P. employees charge the mayor's media company with disability discrimination. [NYP]
&#8226; 2005 was a crummy year, says Jon Friedman. [MW]

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