About Gael Greene










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In her role as restaurant critic of New York Magazine (1968 to January 2002) Detroit-born Gael Greene helped change the way New Yorkers (and many Americans) think about food.

"Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Ice Cream But Were Too Fat To Ask," "The Mafia Guide to Dining Out."   and " Nobody Knows the Truffles I've Seen" were early pieces.   In more recent years her annual roundup of   New York City's dining favorites, Ask Gael, was a gourmand's collectible for many years and she continues to write a weekly Ask Gael column for NYM. Earlier she worked at the New York Post.

As co-founder with James Beard and a continuing force behind Citymeals-on-Wheels as board chair, Ms. Greene has made a significant impact on the city of New York. Citymeals, the largest public/private partnership in the country, has raised $200 million in its twenty-six-year history to help feed the city's frail elderly shut-ins.

Ms. Greene's memoir, "Insatiable, Tales from a Life of Delicious Excess" was published April, 2006. Earlier non-fiction books include "Delicious Sex, A Gourmet Guide for Women and the Men Who Want to Love Them Better" and "BITE: A New York Restaurant Strategy." Her two novels Blue skies, No Candy" and "Doctor Love" were NY Times best sellers.


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Is Peter Luger Doing Better Than the Mafia? Despertate times at Morton’s.

      An influential New York Stock Exchange market maker and long-time habitué of the top-rated Brooklyn steak house complains to a Peter Luger manager about the long wait for a table.  He slips the man forty bucks.  And waits. “I thought there was a recession,” the customer complains.

       “What recession?” says the manager. “No signs of it here.” Business is up 15% so far this year, he claims.

       “Yes,” says the waiter to the specialist, finally claiming his table.  “We could be doing better now than the Mafia.”

  Desperate times…Morton’s the Steakhouse tried to charge Dan Dorfman $2.50 for ice cubes last week.  When Dorfman protested, he was told it was $2.50 extra for a drink ordered “on the rocks.” The legendary financial writer and investigative reporter counted five ice cubes, fifty cents a rock. If you know Dorfman you know his protest was not pretty. “Eventually, they removed the charge,” he reports. “But I bet they get away with it more often than not since that's a place that attracts a fair-sized Wall Street crowd and I'm sure many of them say nothing.”

Editors Note:  We got a kick of the New York Post reporting on this item and acknowledging it was from the blogger, “The Insatiable-Crtitic”.  No where however, did they mention the “blogger” is Gael Greene. We can only assume this was written by a  20 something reporter.