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Ruth Reichl never thought she’d make a career out of writing about food. But she has, defying expectations and obliterating boundaries at august publications along the way. She’s found joy and memory and escape in her writing about food: witness her latest book The Paris Novel. But there is also the theme that has stayed true to Reichl from Berkeley to the L.A. Times, The New York Times to Gourmet magazine and beyond; eating is a political issue.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices