Former NY Times food critic and current Gourmet magazine editor in chief Ruth Reichl is not TV - she's HBO. Two days ago, Variety reported that her books had been optioned by producer Cary Brokaw to turn into a half-hour comedy. Brokaw said, "It'll be a romantic comedy, but also beautiful and real in the same way." This is sounding like an older The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd! Or, as HBO probably hopes, a more mature Sex and the City ("more food, slightly less sex"). Her books, Comfort with Apples and Garlic and Sapphires, will be the basis, but not her first, Tender at the Bone, which is Gothamist's favorite. Maybe they can use it for flashbacks?

And the only other show about a NYC food personality, Kitchen Confidential, was cancelled. But it did get a Writer's Guild nomination for the pilot.