Thanks, @rotuts, I remember that! Here’s a gift link to that NYT obit for non subscribers.
And here’s the eG topic on her viral Olive Garden review:
My two favorite bits of the NYT obit:
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Mr. Bourdain’s imprint with Ecco later published a collection of her restaurant columns, “Grand Forks: A History of American Dining in 128 Reviews” (2013).
“She misses nothing,” he wrote in the foreword. “I would not want to play poker with her for money.”
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James Hagerty wrote about his mother’s late-career stardom in an article that appeared on the front page of The Wall Street Journal in 2012, when he was a reporter there.
“My mom has her own style of reviewing restaurants: She doesn’t like to say anything bad about the food,” he wrote. “If she writes more about the décor than the food, you might want to eat somewhere else.”
In a “Today” interview, Ms. Hagerty took issue with him.
“My son is full of prunes,” she said.
