Gawker.com's Drew Magary is Really Irritated Again
Gawker.com's Drew Magary is Really Irritated Again
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Gawker.com's Drew Magary is Really Irritated Again
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Post #1 - November 21st, 2012, 8:47 pmThanksgiving Is Just Such a Hard Time to Be an Insufferable Food Writer, You Know?
. . . just fall-down funny, as usual. The random shot at Oberlin is inspired.
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Post #2 - November 21st, 2012, 9:35 pmWhich reminds me, I need a new acorn twine holder. Does anyone know where I can pick one up on Thanksgiving day?
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Post #3 - November 23rd, 2012, 5:04 pmYes, indeed. Mean-funny. But I liked it anyway.
Reminds me of a Royko column from decades ago (still the Daily News Royko, I think) in which he eviscerated the Kelsons (then married food critics for Chicago Mag., if I remember correctly), by doing exactly the same line-by-line job on their complaints about a high-end restaurant. Wish I knew how to find it, or even look for it at this late stage."Strange how potent cheap music is."
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Post #4 - November 26th, 2012, 9:58 pmmrbarolo wrote:Reminds me of a Royko column from decades ago (still the Daily News Royko, I think) in which he eviscerated the Kelsons (then married food critics for Chicago Mag., if I remember correctly), by doing exactly the same line-by-line job on their complaints about a high-end restaurant. Wish I knew how to find it, or even look for it at this late stage.In the Chicago Sun-Times of February 4, 1981, Mike Royko wrote:Rigors of de rigueur — A gourmet gauntlet
The city's gourmets are buzzing with the shocking indignity recently suffered by Carla and Allen Kelson. … I always read their dining reports. It's not that I care about the food, since I have stayed away from French restaurants ever since I found a snail in my escargot. … What draws me to the Kelsons' restaurant reviews are the terrible experiences they endure, meal after meal. … Waiters are always doing cruel things to them. A few examples (I add the italics): …
"The waiters have been trained to remove all the silver dome plate covers at once. When there are six people at a table, this can be noisy—even perilous."
And in the very same restaurant, this happened: "One waiter, intent on serving us coffee, failed to see that we were simultaneously being served salad. He plopped the cup down just where the salad plate was heading."
Good grief; during one meal they barely averted a head-on collision between a salad plate and a coffee cup while being threatened by tumbling silver dome plate covers. And war correspondents think they have it tough.
Then there was the business of the cheese…
I don't know if the column is available online but you can find it on microfilm at the Chicago Public Library.
