December Book: Save Me The Plums, My Gourmet Memoir by Ruth Reichl

Trailblazing food writer and beloved restaurant critic Ruth Reichl took the job (and the risk) of a lifetime when she entered the high-stakes world of magazine publishing. Now, for the first time, she chronicles her groundbreaking tenure as editor in chief of Gourmet. “A must for any food lover… Reichl is a warm, intimate writer. …

Family-Friendly Mayo Clinic Historical Film “Dinner at Mayowood: Enduring Values in Changing Times”

Unrated. Historic fiction. Runtime 45 min. Movie trailer: 1940 was a pivotal year for Mayo Clinic. The Mayo brothers and Sister Joseph Dempsey, long-time administrator of Saint Marys Hospital had died the year before, the Great Depression had been a decade of unprecedented financial strain, and now a world war was looming. This film imagines …