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Later, she moved into a South Boston condo. Chef and owner René Redzepi interprets Nordic cuisine with heavy emphasis on extreme foraging and fermenting.)

Lynch believes that today’s business model will soon be obsolete.

“It has to change. But, it gets harder,” she says.

“No. And she’s also been sued for withholding tips during the pandemic, a lawsuit that is still ongoing, according to Eater.

Renovations would then begin on January 2. I think his paintings are more understandable. She recalls how stunned her colleagues were to learn how much harder she was working to survive than the rest.

Nach Waxman, owner of Kitchen Arts & Letters, the highly-regarded bookstore on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, had to read her book to learn that for all those years Lynch had been buying stacks of his foreign cookbooks just for the pictures.

“I had no idea you didn’t read — that you were dyslexic,” he told her.

The photographs in those fat cookbooks — Lynch calls them the “big daddies” — that Waxman kept in the back of his store were an instrumental part of her success.

“My friends and colleagues think I’m tough.

(Lynch denies the allegations in both cases.)

As the remaining three restaurants shut down, Lynch’s restaurant group is looking for buyers. In 2003, The James Beard Foundation named her “Best Chef Northeast,” and in 2007, Boston Magazine named Barbara “Best Chef.” In 2011, she was named Distinguished Chef by Johnson and Wales University.

And I was like ‘holy crap!’ — I like this! In addition, she was the recipient of the “Women Chefs & Restaurateurs (WCR) Barbara Tropp President's Award.”

In 2013, Barbara was inducted into the James Beard Foundation’s Who’s Who of Food and Beverage in America, a prestigious group of the most accomplished food and beverage professionals in the country, and she also received an honorary doctorate in public service from Northeastern University in recognition of her culinary and philanthropic contributions.

“The harsh realities of the global pandemic and the many difficulties faced calls for significant investment, which neither myself nor my fellow shareholders are positioned to do.”

Since the 1990s, Lynch has been at the forefront of Boston’s culinary scene, with several James Beard Award nominations—and a few wins—under her belt.

In 2017, she was named to the TIME 100, Time Magazine’s annual list of the world’s most influential people.

Barbara's first cookbook, Stir: Mixing It Up in the Italian Tradition, was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in Fall 2009. 9 is 20 years old!

I haven’t really thought about my life at all, any balance or any of that,’” she says.

“That’s when you really go down deep and say, ‘alright, I’ve made the transition from kitchen to owner to restaurateur, and then entrepreneur. Lynch was intimate with its brutality, but she found some security in the matriarchal clans that always made the place feel like home.

Things got even tougher during the desegregation of Boston schools in the 1970s, when she was bused to Madison Park High School in Roxbury.

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Lynch’s hazel eyes focus, and one eyebrow arches dramatically. Opening in 1998, No. 9 quickly became a breeding ground for Boston culinary talent and expression.