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STEINGARTEN AND I HEAR THE DINNER BELL!
Is there a difference between a food writer and restaurant critic?
I think there is a real difference. One is a subset of the other. As in:
1) Writer
.........i) Food Writer
.................(a) Restaurant Critic
Just because a person writes about a restaurant in grand detail, doesn’t make that person a critic. And usually restaurant critics, who are constrained by a word limit, do not have the luxury to wax philosophical unless they are really good--in a Confucian sort of way.
Though the characteristics of a great food writer and a great restaurant critic bleed into each other, I think a critic must possess some rather unique traits.
A great restaurant critic has:
*an eidetic taste memory
*a biologically great palette
*a sense of humor (anyone who disagrees with this, show me one great restaurant critic without one)
*a bottomless pit instead of a stomach, or at least the ability to supress the satiation response
A great restaurant critic is:
*a great writer
*obsessed with food
*a good home cook
WIN DINNER WITH ME AND A FAMOUS FOODIE!
I don’t believe that the greatest restaurant critic lives in Chicago, but I do think that in order to critique a critic, you must at the very least, eat what they eat. So with that in mind, my vote is for Mike Sula of the Chicago Reader
Who?!
Sula’s an obsessed foodie, who pays no attention to the celebrity of chefs. He eats and writes with a fearless wit and has a distinctive point of view that includes a sense of value, both monetary and aesthetic. He refuses to drag his readers through the mundane and loves to highlight the weird.
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DATE: 06/15/2006 11:14:19
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I'm usually too occupied with the hush puppies & jalepeno jelly to worry about the fries. Actually now that you mention it, I can't even remember ever eating fries there.