<p><b>"Genuinely touching, wonderfully revealing" <i>NEW YORKER<br><br>Garlic and Sapphires</i> is Ruth Reichl''s riotous account of the many disguises she employs to dine undetected when she takes on the much coveted and highly prestigious job of <i>New York Times</i> restaurant critic.<br>____________________________________________________</b><br><br>Reichl knows that to be a good critic she has to be anonymous - but her picture is posted in every four-star, low-star kitchen in town and so she embarks on an extraordinary - and hilarious - undercover game of disguise - keeping even her husband and son in the dark. There is her stint as Molly, a frumpy blonde in an off-beige Armani suit that Ruth takes on when reviewing Le Cirque resulting in a double review of the restaurant: first she ate there as Molly; and then as she was coddled and pampered on her visit there as Ruth, <i>New York Times</i> food critic. Then there is the eccentric, mysterious red head on whom her husband - both d