Garlic & Sapphires, Part 3!

Thank you to my friend who offered some fascinating comments via email after reading the copy of G&S  that I loaned her.   She has given me permission to post here…  [with slight editing... Ed.]

…developing a book club blog is a great, topical idea. And your questions were thoughtful. 

I just finished G&S (thumbed back through trying to find the quote re garlic and sapphires and couldn’t… have to review that, because I think I didn’t quite get it).  

 I do love food and to cook, but never at the level described in this book.  I guess in every area there are those who enjoy, just to enjoy, and then those who take it to the nth degree.  Horses, airplanes, drag racing, everything I have more than a passing experience with — that’s what seems to happen.  I guess I am a born dabbler, or something.  There are so many worlds out there — one of the things I have always enjoyed and expressed about [having a] real estate [career]– the opportunity to bump into people from so many of those different little worlds.   I would like to have more meals like that, though.  I have had some great ones — in Boston, on Nantucket, on the Cape. East Bay Grille in Plymouth is great and local; Cranebrook Tea Room, Margaret’s in Fairhaven.  But you need someone with you who appreciates it as much as you do, so that’s special companions.  Not [significant other/life companion/good guy/hunk] in that regard, though he will experiment on occasion. 

So this was a great foodie’s book, but also a good book about yet another woman exploring who she really is.  The metaphor of the disguises was not lost on this reader, nor, I suspect, on you. And then today I got to the part where Michael got up and left the dinner — good guy.  Who better to point out where one is going astray than one’s best beloved?  And Nicky is going to grow into a fabulous guy.

  

  

   

Thank you “L” for your sharing your thoughts!  Most appreciated!!

 

Garlic & Sapphires by Ruth Reichl  – Care Rate 3+ Stars

Review Part 1

Review Part 2