Ruth Reichl describes herself as ‘Writer. Eater. Cook. Former Gourmet editor’, but this only hints at the achievements of the multi-award-winning New York writer, editor and television host, who has recently published her first novel, Delicious!.

She is widely known for her bestselling memoir, Tender at the Bone, and its successors, and as an acclaimed restaurant critic, a job for which she often donned wigs to ensure anonymity. She talks about her life and work with food writer and author Lauraine Jacobs.