Well, the name does, anyway, along with former editor Ruth Reichl. It airs on PBS on Sunday afternoons (local times vary) starting this weekend, and features Ruthiepoo and a celebrity buddy (first episode: actress Francis McDormand) visiting some richly textured resort/restaurant/destination and doing a hands-on locavore thing wherein they pick veggies or catch a couple trout which they end up dealing with in a kitchen under the tutelage of some pros.
There's a whole article about it in today's NYTimes, but my summary above and this astute observation by the article's author in this excerpt can probably help you decide whether or not it's something you'd find interesting: How people feel about the show will mirror how they felt about the magazine. If they thought Gourmet was a bastion of excellence and aspiration and did, in fact, reflect the way they wanted to cook, then they’ll love “Adventures With Ruth.” If they thought it was a glossy anachronism that was irrelevant to their harried, downscaled lives, well, there’s always Rachael Ray. Either way, Ms. Reichl, a former restaurant critic for The New York Times, is not interested in compromise, or at least she wasn’t while the show was being produced. It’s unashamedly pitched to an audience that wants to believe in the natural conjunction of a fastidious, locavore approach to food and a lush, almost sybaritic approach to its consumption.
At the party Ms. Reichl joked about the show’s limited production budget, but it looks like a million bucks, with the rich, saturated colors of a Condé Nast photo spread (more like Condé Nast Traveler, actually, than Gourmet). As travel porn goes, it’s hard to beat — it’s the well-upholstered Mercedes to Anthony Bourdain’s Camaro. (This speaks well for the versatility of Zero Point Zero Productions, which is responsible for both “Gourmet’s Adventures With Ruth” and “Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations.”)