Ruth Reichl Receives The College at Brockport's Art of Fact Award

Ruth Reichl is the 2011 recipient of The College at Brockport's Art of Fact Award. Her May 6, 2011 speech at the award ceremony is reproduced here.
Reichl was the Editor in Chief of Gourmet magazine and the author of three bestselling memoirs, Comfort Me with Apples, Tender at the Bone and Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise. For those who have read her books, we know Reichl's mother as "the notorious almost-food-poisoner" and "the Queen of Mold," and in many ways Reichl shaped her life to be in direct contrast to her mother's.

After her mother's death, Reichl finds her personal journal, which sends her on a clear-eyed, openhearted investigation of her mother's life, and the life of a woman she realizes she never really knew. Her latest memoir addresses these issues: On Not Becoming My Mother. Reichl also co-produced PBS's Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie, and hosted PBS's Gourmet's Adventures with Ruth.

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