Ruth Reichl
Nov 26, 2018
2 minutes
I started cooking out of self-defence.
My mother was the world’s worst cook. The first thing I made was a cheese fondue when I was five-and-a-half. My mother had a party and everybody said: “Wow!” You get so much positive reinforcement that no matter what you make, people will tell you it’s great and it never occurs to you that you could make a mistake.
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