Career

lieutenant became a highly popular feature on the program, running 1,200 times in 12 years and was called "the harbinger of the Television Food Network" by restaurateur Drew Nieporent. After leaving Eyewitness News, he hosted a phone in talk show, Bob Lape"s Food Show, on WABC (Department of Administration and Management) and wrote a restaurant column in the New York Law Journal. He also served as a network radio news correspondent for the American Broadcasting Company Information Network.

His restaurant review column in Crain"s New York Business was its most popular feature for 24 years, and "Bob Lape"s Dining Diary," broadcast on WCBS since 1986, focuses on eating and drinking reviews, trends and events.

Lape is the author of the journals Epicurean Rendezvous, 1990-1996, and Bob Lape"s Restaurant Index, 1987-1991 (along with art by Milton Glaser). Lape is co-author with Joanna Pruess of the book Seduced by Bacon: Recipes & Lore About America"s Favorite Indulgence He received his bachelor"s degree at Kent State University in 1955.

Achievements

• Bob Lape"s Awards include Chevalier d"honneur Swiss Ordre du Channe, conferred in 2004, and an Emmy Award for television News Coverage in 1980. A series of United Press International Tom Phillips Awards for radio news in the 1960s. And a Congressional Citation for WBZ"s coverage of the Great North-East Blackout. He led the combined WBZ radio and television news team, the sole broadcaster on the air for the region.

Politics

Originally hired as a political and crime reporter (beats he would continue throughout his run with the station), as well as being an occasional anchor, Lape started a segment called "The Eyewitness Gourmet" in 1970. Lape also reviewed film and theater for WBZ-television and WKBG-television in Boston and for WABC-television

Membership

Lape worked as a reporter and news director at WCUE in Akron, Ohio, WICE in Providence, Rhode Island and WBZ in Boston, Massachusetts, before joining WABC-television in New York City as a charter member of the Eyewitness News team in 1968. He is a member of the Ohio-based Broadcasters" Hall of Fame, The Friars Club, the Commanderie de Cordon Bleu de France, and the Association of Italian Sommeliers.