Gael Greene Obituary

Gael Greene was a restaurant critic, author, and novelist from the United States. Greene was born in Detroit and attended Central High School before attending the University of Michigan.

She became New York magazine’s restaurant critic in the fall of 1968, at a time when most New Yorkers were clueless about food and few chefs were known by name, and for four decades she both documented and inspired the city’s and America’s growing obsession with food. She was a trailblazer “foodie.

She created memorable articles such as “Everything You Wanted to Know About Ice Cream But Were Too Fat to Ask

Gael Greene, died on Tuesday, November 1, 2022, at her home in a Manhattan assisted living facility.

Gael Greene was 88 years old. She died from cancer was the cause, according to her niece Dana Sachs Stoddard.

Much of Greene’s writing lives on via her website, insatiable-critic.com. It’s home to vintage writings like travel columns, recipes, an archive of her “Fork Play” newsletter and a 1963 piece in the Saturday Evening Post titled “A Vote Against Motherhood,” where she boldly made her case for choosing to not have children.