A few weeks ago Ruth Reichl made a whistle-stop in Seattle. Stumping her latest book Not Becoming My Mother she insisted again and again that the book was not about food and forced her to stretch and grow and face realities as she cleaned out her recently deceased mother's belongings.

Meanwhile, the camera doesn't lie. As Ruth made her presentation to a gathering of bloggers at Olivar on Seattle's Capitol Hill, Chef and his crew busily prepared apps, as you can see through the window.

Apparently, once you are in the business...even when you are not about food, it is still all about food.