Michael \"Dog3\" wrote:


> Goomba38 > dropped this news:l-
> : in rec.food.cooking
>
> > Too good not to share! I wish my local newspaper had the balls to do
> > restaurant reviews like this one!
>
> >http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/...203404,00.html
>
> They for sure don't do reviews like that in St. Louis. Or at least not
> that I've read. I don't follow our food sections here very often. I
> always find them uninspiring and insipid and best. The review you posted
> was vivid and funny with a wicked backlash. I would read the reviewer's
> column every time it was published. Thanks for the post.


I like reading "service" features in the UK press, they tend to be
*very* colorful and even "over the top* as compared to similar stuff
here in the States...

By "service" articles I mean resto reviews, auto road tests, travel
articles, etc. I check _The Guardian_ and _The Independent_ every
week for such features, they make for juicy reading...

So much of US journalism is bland, boring, and pre - digested. I like
to see writers that are not afraid to offend someone...whethere it's a
road test, a restaurant or hotel review or whatever.

I liked that _NYT_ review that Margaret cited, we need more of that
kind of food writing...the _NYT_ publishes quite a few negative resto
reviews. So does the _Village Voice_...

As others have mentioned, the "food" sections of US newspapers have
become nothing but puff producers for the food industry, it's been
years frex since I've seen anything remotely critical in the "Food"
sections of the Chicawgo papers...the resto reviews are a little more
critical, they still have some "snap" to them when it warrants.


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Best
Greg