In an ideal world, this would be the perfect job -
Since winning a competition for a three-month contract to write the newspaper's restaurant reviews in 1972, she has survived eight editors and written more than two million words. She says she's sure a couple of bosses have thought about getting rid of her over the years 'for someone younger and more interested in who is at the next table'. But they would surely ditch her at their peril. Readers and those in the restaurant business follow the column because they trust her.