# Ruth Calder > I spent thirty years cooking in a Highland inn. These are the stories of the people who ate there. Ruth Calder ran the kitchen at the Kilmory Inn for thirty years, feeding shepherds, lost hikers and one very famous fiddler. When she retired she began writing down the stories her guests had told her across the pass. The first became a book; the second is a collection of the letters she never sent. ## Books - [The Kitchen at Kilmory](https://writeinaclick.com/@ruth-calder/books/the-kitchen-at-kilmory): Thirty years, one stove and a thousand strangers: a memoir of a Highland inn and the woman who fed everyone who came through its door. - [Letters I Never Posted](https://writeinaclick.com/@ruth-calder/books/letters-i-never-posted): To my mother, to a son I lost touch with, to the man who asked me to leave with him in 1974. The letters, at last. ## About Ruth Calder ### Who is Ruth Calder? I spent thirty years cooking in a Highland inn. These are the stories of the people who ate there. ### What books has Ruth Calder written? Ruth Calder is the author of The Kitchen at Kilmory and Letters I Never Posted. ## Optional - [Sitemap](https://writeinaclick.com/@ruth-calder/sitemap.xml)