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Reichl introduced the reader to her believable, lovable characters and to mouthwatering food. DELICIOUS is one wonderful page of words after another. What more can a reader ask for? DELICIOUS is a reader's and a cook's paradise. Recipes, libraries, letters, books, food, authentic Italian butcher and cheese shops, aromas you can smell through the pages, and marvelous characters. On the other hand, it was a pretty fun and fast read, and if you're looking for a souffle-type novel, you could do worse! Plus, so many AWESOME OLD LADIES, which are my favorite.more Oh and also she is secretly a FASHION GENIUS too! Because being only one kind of genius is just not enough. and a line of dialogue about rose petals that was so incredibly hokey that I laughed extremely hard in the break room at work and had to try to explain to my coworkers about how the people had sex for the first time in a SECRET LIBRARY.

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OH and there's a gruff but kind boss, and a different gruff but kind boss, and a fabulous older gay man who mentors her and gives her a makeover (of the kind which is like, just take off those glasses and get a haircut and stop wearing those baggy clothes which are covering up your perfect figure which you have despite all the free chocolate BUT I DIGRESS) Anyway there's also a SECRET LIBRARY and a MYSTERIOUS PUZZLE and a HEARTWARMING WWII STORY and a HOT ARCHITECT and an UNDERGROUND RAILROAD THING and not one but TWO colorful Italian families. Gotta start somewhere.īut it's just.okay, so the main character is a genius food person with a miraculous palate! but she doesn't cook! because of her Tragic Past! and she thinks she is USELESS but everyone she meets loves her! and gives her free chocolate and cheese and bakes her souffles and whatnot. I mean, it's definitely a 'write what you know' kind of thing, about a woman who works for a venerable food magazine that suddenly ceases publication. Garlic and Sapphires is one of my favorite books ever. But it's just.okay, so the main character is a genius food person with a miraculous palate! but she doesn't cook! because of her Tragic Past! oookaaaayyy, well let me just start out by saying that I love Ruth Reichl.

Oookaaaayyy, well let me just start out by saying that I love Ruth Reichl. Lulu's letters lead Billie to a deeper understanding of history (and the history of food), but most important, Lulu's courage in the face of loss inspires Billie to come to terms with her own issues-the panic attacks that occur every time she even thinks about cooking, the truth about the big sister she adored, and her ability to open her heart to love.more What she doesn't know is that this boring, lonely job will be the portal to a life-changing discovery.ĭelicious! carries the reader to the colorful world of downtown New York restaurateurs and artisanal purveyors, and from the lively food shop in Little Italy where Billie works on weekends to a hidden room in the magazine's library where she discovers the letters of Lulu Swan, a plucky twelve-year-old, who wrote to the legendary chef James Beard during World War II. She is offered a new job: staying behind in the magazine's deserted downtown mansion offices to uphold the 'Delicious Guarantee'-a public relations hotline for complaints and recipe inquiries-until further notice. When the publication is summarily shut down, the colorful staff, who have become an extended family for Billie, must pick up their lives and move on.

Billie Breslin has traveled far from her California home to take a job at Delicious, the most iconic food mag In her bestselling memoirs Ruth Reichl has long illuminated the theme of how food defines us, and never more so than in her dazzling fiction debut about sisters, family ties, and a young woman who must finally let go of guilt and grief to embrace her own true gifts.īillie Breslin has traveled far from her California home to take a job at Delicious, the most iconic food magazine in New York and, thus, the world. In her bestselling memoirs Ruth Reichl has long illuminated the theme of how food defines us, and never more so than in her dazzling fiction debut about sisters, family ties, and a young woman who must finally let go of guilt and grief to embrace her own true gifts.

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