Cheap Eats.
This morning we walked over to the venerable Steve’s on Newbury Street for breakfast. Behind the potted plants on a side wall where we sat was this framed Cheap Eats review Mary Jane wrote as part of an on-going series—-a sideline assignment as she worked for the Boston Globe marketing and public affairs department early in her career there.
This happens all the time, in little restaurants far and wide. Even though these reviews are more than 25 years old, it and others like it are framed and hung in some out-of -the way corner of places in the remotest corners of Jamaica Plain, South Boston, strip mall delis on the North Shore and Portugese joints in East Cambridge.
Of course when this happens (and I’m along), MJ will never identify herself as the writer to the owner. Decades later she prefers the anonymity of a young, unknown (kinder and gentler) restaurant reviewer.
Occasionally I break the rules and re-introduce her
