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Gael Greene (1933 – 2022)
New York: Warner Books, 2006
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L.2022.4.7
Inspired by Titian, Venus of Urbino, 1538
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence
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Gael Greene, a pioneering food writer and award-winning restaurant critic for New York Magazine, published this lively and humorous account of her four-decade career in 2006. Greene, who began her weekly column in 1968, is recognized as an innovator in the culinary writing genre. She would typically use disguises when eating at restaurants and favored provocative titles to her reviews. She also co-founded with chef James Beard the nonprofit Citymeals-on-Wheels in 1981 to provide meals for elderly, mobility challenged residents of New York.