Awards & Winners

Ruth Reichl

Date of Birth 16-January-1948
Place of Birth Manhattan
(New York City, New York, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Food critic, Editor, Author, Television Producer
Ruth Reichl - pronounced RYE-chil - is an American food writer, co-producer of PBS's Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie, culinary editor for the Modern Library, host of PBS's Gourmet's Adventures With Ruth, and the last editor-in-chief of the now shuttered Gourmet magazine. She has written a trilogy of critically acclaimed, best-selling memoirs: Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table, Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table, and Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise and has lately published Not becoming my Mother. Her latest book is Gourmet Today a 1,008 page cookbook containing over 1,000 recipes. Born to parents Ernst and Miriam, Reichl was raised in Greenwich Village in New York City and spent time at a boarding school in Montreal as a young girl. She attended the University of Michigan, where she met her first husband, the artist Douglas Hollis. She graduated in 1970 with an M.A. in Art History. She and Hollis moved to Berkeley, California, where her interest in food led to her joining the collectively owned Swallow Restaurant as a chef and co-owner from 1973 to 1977, and where she played an important role in the culinary revolution taking place at the time. Reichl began her food-writing career with Mmmmm: A Feastiary, a cookbook, in 1972. She moved on to become food writer and editor of New West magazine from 1973 to 1977, then to the Los Angeles Times as its restaurant editor from 1984 to 1993 and food editor and critic from 1990 to 1993. She returned to her native New York City in 1993 to become the restaurant critic for The New York Times before leaving to assume the editorship of Gourmet in 1999.

Awards by Ruth Reichl

Check all the awards nominated and won by Ruth Reichl.

2010


Nominations 2010 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Culinary Program Gourmet's Adventures With Ruth
James Beard Award for Special/Documentary (Television or Video Webcast) A Moveable Feast with America's Favorite Chefs

2009


James Beard Award for Magazine Feature Writing About Restaurants and/or Chefs
Honored for : The Last Time I Saw Paris...
James Beard Award for Multimedia Food Feature
Honored for : The Test Kitchen

Nominations 2009 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
James Beard Award for Multimedia Food Feature The Test Kitchen
James Beard Award for Magazine Feature Writing About Restaurants and/or Chefs The Last Time I Saw Paris...
James Beard Award for Multimedia Food Feature Gourmet Cookbook Club
James Beard Award for Website focusing on Food, Restaurants, Beverage, or Nutrition Gourmet.com
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Culinary Program Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie

2008


James Beard Award for Television Food Show, National or Local
Honored for : Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie

Nominations 2008 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
James Beard Award for Television Food Show, National or Local Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Service Show Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie

2007


James Beard Award for Best National Television Cooking Show
Honored for : Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie

Nominations 2007 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
James Beard Award for Best National Television Cooking Show Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie

1999


Nominations 1999 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
James Beard Award for Reference and Scholarship Cookbook Tender at the Bone

1998


James Beard Award for Newspaper Restaurant Review or Critique
Honored for : A New LeCirque: The Same Old Magic

Nominations 1998 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
James Beard Award for Newspaper Restaurant Review or Critique A New LeCirque: The Same Old Magic

1997


Nominations 1997 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
James Beard Award for Newspaper Restaurant Review or Critique
The New York Times

1996


James Beard Award for Newspaper Restaurant Review or Critique
(The New York Times)

Nominations 1996 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
James Beard Award for Newspaper Restaurant Review or Critique
The New York Times

1994


James Beard Award for Newspaper Feature Reporting
Honored for : Seafood Seminar: A Day at the Markets

Nominations 1994 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
James Beard Award for Newspaper Feature Reporting Seafood Seminar: A Day at the Markets