Gina Mallet

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Gina Mallet (* 1938 in Great Britain ) is a British-Canadian author.

Mallet grew up in London . She emigrated to the USA at an early age, where she worked for Time magazine. From 1976 to 1984 she worked as a theater critic for the Toronto Star , where she spoke out vehemently against public subsidies for the theater and a national Canadian theater scene. She saw both as detrimental to art, since it led the artists to self-sufficiency.

Mallet has worked as a freelance writer for almost all of Canada's major newspapers and the New York Times . Since the 1990s she has mainly been active as a restaurant critic. In 2004 she published the book Last Chance to Eat; The Fate of Taste in a Fast Food World . The book is partly an autobiography and describes growing up in post-war England, and partly an essay with strong opinions on developments in gastronomy and everyday cooking. The New Yorker described the book in its basic theses as unoriginal, a kind of serious version of the bestsellers Super Size Me and Fast Food Nation . The New Yorker finds "the impatient disdain for everyone who stands between you and the next fabulous appetizer enchanting." In 2005 she won the James Beard Foundation Award for the book .

She currently works as a restaurant critic for the National Post in Toronto .

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  1. ^ A b Gina Mallet, a Toronto Writer, to Make the Case for Enjoying Food Without Guilt or Fear , Lebanon Valley College News, September 22, 2005
  2. ↑ Random House Group: Gina Mallet
  3. ^ Anton Wagner Theater Criticism, English Language , The Canadian Encyclopedia
  4. ↑ National Post: Author: Gina Mallet
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SURNAME Mallet, Gina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-Canadian author
DATE OF BIRTH 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Great Britain