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Alice Waters–Edible Schoolyard Takedown in the 'Atlantic Monthly': Wrong, Wrong, Wrong

Caitlin Flanagan's hatchet job in the usually thought-provoking and intelligent Atlantic Monthly on Alice Waters and her Edible Schoolyard project is so wrongheaded. How wrong? Let us count the ways.

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63 Comments | Posted by Ed Levine, January 13, 2010 at 7:30 AM
Tagged: Alice Waters, criticism, Edible Schoolyard, The Atlantic Monthly

The Trials and Tribulations of a Restaurant Critic

Alison Arnett has left her job as the Boston Globe's restaurant critic after an incredible fifteen year run and over 700 reviews tucked under her belt. Her farewell post on the trial tribulations of a restaurant critic is a fantastic read, but here's my favorite part of it, what she says is a critic's job requirement: A thick skin. Early in my reviewing career (I had a respectable editing job at the Globe before this), I overheard a woman at the table next to ours discussing me. "You know, she's a vegetarian. Isn't that awful? How can she write about meat when she doesn't even eat it? That's so dishonest." Of course, I wanted to jump up and throttle her....

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Post a Comment | Posted by Lia Bulaong, May 2, 2007 at 12:30 PM
Tagged: criticism, restaurant critics, thick skin, writing