Tom Fitzmorris, the prolific and persnickety New Orleans restaurant critic who spent three hours a day, five days a week discussing food on his radio show and wrote what by his estimation was America’s longest-running weekly restaurant review column by a single author, died on Feb. 12 in New Orleans. He was 74. His wife,…
Patsy Grimaldi, a restaurateur whose coal-oven pizzeria in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge won new fans for New York City’s oldest pizza style with carefully made pies that helped start a national movement toward artisan pizza, died on Feb. 13 in Queens. He was 93. His nephew Frederick Grimaldi confirmed the death, at NewYork-Presbyterian…
Refugee, prisoner, wine merchant, spy: Peter Sichel was many things in his long, colorful life, but he was probably most often identified as the man who made Blue Nun one of the most popular wines in the world in the 1970s and ’80s. At its peak, in 1985, 30 million bottles of this slightly sweet…
Pableaux Johnson, a New Orleans food writer, photographer and cook who spread the gospel of community by serving bowls of red beans and rice to thousands of people, and who documented the city’s singular Mardi Gras traditions, died there on Sunday. He was 59. Mr. Johnson’s sister Charlotte Aaron said he was photographing a second-line…