Encore: Ruth Reichl on the Rise and Fall of Gourmet Magazine

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4.4 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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One of our favorite conversations this year was with Ruth Reichl, the legendary food journalist and former editor of Gourmet Magazine. In her newest book Save Me the Plums, Ruth talks about the wild 10 years she spent at Condé Nast and the traumatic folding of the beloved magazine. She joined Amanda and Daniel in Eater's studios to dish on the changing world of food media. Guests: Ruth Reichl (@RuthRecihl) Hosts: Amanda Kludt (@kludt), Editor in Chief, Eater Daniel Geneen (@danielgeneen), Producer, Eater Produced by: Martha Daniel (@martha_c_daniel) More to explore: Check out more great reporting from the Eater newsroom. Subscribe to Amanda’s weekly newsletter here. Follow Us: Eater.com Facebok.com/Eater YouTube.com/Eater @eater on Twitter and Instagram Get in Touch: [email protected] About Eater: Eater obsessively covers the world through the lens of food, telling stories via audio, television, digital video, and publications in 24 cities across the US and UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Once upon a time, Disney was a motion picture studio in a sea of Hollywood studios doing something nobody else was doing.
0:09.0	Disney's business is memory making.
0:13.1	Disney's business is tradition.
0:15.4	But here's the thing about kingdoms.
0:17.1	They don't last forever.
0:18.8	To survive, Disney had to grow.
0:21.1	But has that tremendous growth eroded what made Disney, Disney.
0:24.2	And I don't know the world cares that this is a Disney movie anymore.
0:28.0	I'm Joe Adallion. I'm hosting Land of the Giants, the Disney
0:32.1	dilemma from Bulcher on the Box Media
0:33.9	Podcast Network. Follow Land of the Giants wherever you listen to hear new
0:38.0	episodes every Wednesday. Hey, Digest Listeners, this is Amanda Clute.
0:51.2	This week on the show we are rerunning one of my favorite interviews we've ever done on the show. It is with Ruth Ryschel.
0:58.0	We are talking about her memoir that came out this year, Save Me the Plums.
1:01.0	It's an amazing book.
1:02.9	You should buy it if you haven't bought it yet.
1:05.2	It's all about her decade at Gourmet magazine
1:07.6	and the ups and downs that she experienced there.
1:10.3	So stay tuned for Ruth, and I hope you enjoy.
1:15.0	Ruth came in to talk about her new memoir Save Me The Plums, a book where she goes into her history as the editor of Gourmet, one of the biggest food publications in the history
1:26.1	of the entire planet.
1:28.1	Right?
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