The prolific contributor had an appetite like no other—and the stamina to match
’s more prolific and erudite contributors was R.W. “Johnny” Apple Jr. During his 40-plus years as a foreign correspondent for, Johnny filed reports from more than 100 countries, and served as the paper’s bureau chief in Saigon, Lagos, Nairobi, London, Moscow, and Washington, D.C. But his true passion was food and wine—leading Andrew Rosenthal, the’ former op-ed editor, to remark that Apple possessed “the best mind and the worst body in American journalism.
Florida chef Norman Van Aken told me that Johnny once requested a list of Miami’s top 10 Cuban sandwiches, then invited him to tag along. “I met Johnny on his fourth stop of the day,” Van Aken says. “He had crumbs on his face from one sandwich as he ordered the next. I was in awe of his stamina.” Perhaps the ultimate Johnny Apple story, though, involves the time Joe Lelyveld, then executive editor at the, visited his London bureau chief. Johnny chose an excellent restaurant and ordered liberally. When the check arrived, Lelyveld reached for it, but Johnny said, “Better let me take this one, Joe. They’ll never believe it coming from you.”. I expected a pitch about some exotic corner of the world.
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