Join iconic food writer and bestselling author Ruth Reichl for an evening that unfolds like a literary tasting menu. In conversation with Lindsey Tramuta, she’ll revisit the brasseries, bakeries, and vanished haunts of The Paris Novel, blending memory and imagination into a richly layered portrait of the city.
Beloved for her evocative food writing, Reichl will reflect on how real meals and markets became fiction, exploring a Paris both remembered and reinvented.
About the speakers:
Ruth Reichl wrote her first cookbook in 1972. She spent the seventies as restaurant critic for New West Magazine and the eighties restaurant critic and food editor of the Los Angeles Times. From 1993 to 1999 she was the restaurant critic for the New York Times before moving to Gourmet Magazine as Editor in Chief. She has written five memoirs, two novels and two cookbooks, edited a dozen books and hosted two television series. Her movie Food and Country is available on streaming and she produces a weekly newsletter, La Briffe, on Substack. The recipient of 7 James Beard Awards, including Lifetime Achievement, she is currently working on a sequel to The Paris Novel.
Lindsey Tramuta has been based in Paris since 2006. She is a bilingual French-English culture and travel journalist, bestselling author, podcaster, and editorial consultant. Since 2012, her work has appeared in T: The New York Times Style Magazine, the New York Times, Condé Nast Traveler, Fortune Magazine, Afar Magazine, Travel & Leisure, Eater, Bloomberg, Elle, and Vogue, among other international publications.
