I received word Monday morning and called Patrick.
He said, “I’ll drive over.” Really?
When I took this job, people smiled. “You’ll meet Fifi Chao.”
And I did. Especially this week—through Patrick and FOFs. “One of a kind,” Patrick told me in my office.
Fifi was more than a writer. She was sort of famous, dined with celebrities—Peck, Wilder. Dined with Dinah and Diana. She dined and traveled the world, with world leaders and world-renowned chefs.
Fifi Chao was a Dinesty.
“A lot of people read Fifi,” Patrick said. “She was very humble. In a human being what else are you looking for?”
“She never really had a boss,” Patrick noted. “And now I don’t have my boss.”
Photos that Patrick shared with me are on page 80.
