Remembering James Ward
By Chuck Sudo in Food on Feb 27, 2009 4:30PM
Video via GB's Andrew Huff
Along with Norm van Lier and Johnny "Red" Kerr, longtime ABC7 restaurant critic James Ward passed away yesterday after a long illness. The flamboyant Ward was noted for his very theatrical and enthusiastic reviews; long before former talk show host Sally Jessy Raphael adopted the same look, Ward's sartorial trademark was a pair of red-rimmed glasses. Prior to his television work, Ward was a restaurant critic for the Sun-Times and Chicago Daily News; edited restaurant and travel guides for R.R. Donnelly & Sons; and worked at Restaurants & Institutions, a food-industry trade publication. [ABC7 Chicago]