Sylvia Rector
Sylvia Rector, the longtime Detroit Free press restaurant critic, who was diagnosed with colon cancer shortly after retiring in December 2015, died Sunday at her home in Beverly Hills, the paper reports. She was 66.
Rector worked for the paper for 17 years as the restaurant critic.
"In the metro Detroit dining community, Sylvia Rector was a restaurant superstar, but to me she was a friend,"her longtime editor, Holly Griffin, says in a Freep article by Mark Stryker and Mark Kurlyandchik. "I think it was the friendships in her life that she cherished the most. She was a true perfectionist, and often her own toughest critic.
"Sylvia was meticulous about every word, every sentence, every story. She is someone the world will truly miss."
