Ruth Calder: media kit

Short bio

I spent thirty years cooking in a Highland inn. These are the stories of the people who ate there.

Long bio

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

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  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.

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  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.