Tender_At_The_Bone

Tender At The Bone Textual Analysis Ruth has a unique way of relating food to her everyday life. She has viewed food as a security blanket to keep her safe and sane in her insane life. Ruth portrayed herself as a very responsible independent child, young adult, and woman. She used food as a bridge to make friendships, establish rituals, bridge cultures, and heal wounds. Having such a hard time separating fact from fiction in her mother’s manic depressant world made her what she is today, one of the country’s best food critics. With one sour remark from her she could close down a restaurant before the next day’s Tribune could even hit the press. Ruth has realized food can be very dangerous, but also can be a way of making sense of the world. It also gives her a sense of hope that things could be much worse as not have food as a stepping stone to make life more bearable. Food has become her best friend getting her through times she never would have with out it. Cooking herself a better life. In her memoir Tender to the Bone, Ruth Reichl dishes out delectable tales of her growing up at the dinner table, ruth, food, life, made, mother, out, herself, way, one, serafina, even, never, friends, wanted, time, cooking, realized, people, loved, felt, feel, father, didn’t, cook, always, alice, took, making, just, home, go, every, came, very, trying