Ruth Reichl, the pioneering editor in chief of Condé Nast’s gastronomic institution Gourmet and formerly the celebrated restaurant critic for The New York Times, is musing about who should play her in the movie adaptation of her scrumptiously engaging memoir, Garlic and Sapphires, which Fox and Avenue Pictures are developing and on which Reichl is an executive producer.

“I would love Julia Roberts. She’s asked to see the script when it’s done.”

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