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"Gael Greene" is an American Food critic/restaurant critic, author and novelist. She became New York (magazine)/New York magazine's restaurant critic in fall 1968, at a time when most New Yorkers were unsophisticated about food and there were few chefs anyone knew by name, and for four decades both documented and inspired the city's and America's growing obsession with food. She was a pioneering "foodie".

Greene was born in Detroit, where her father owned a clothing store, and graduated from Central High School (Detroit)/Central High School in 1951, then from the University of Michigan. She has said that her passion for food was awakened by a year abroad in Paris while she was an undergraduate. She worked as an investigative reporter for United Press International/UPI then the New York Post, for example pretending to be single and pregnant for an investigation of baby trafficking, and was made a food writer after her editor liked an article she wrote about chef Henri Soule. She became food reporter at New York soon after its launch, in fall 1968.