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Eater's Digest

How Critic Robert Sietsema Keeps Dining Out During Lockdown

Eater's Digest

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Food, Comedy, Arts, News Commentary, Improv

4.4902 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Eater NY senior critic Robert Sietsema has been dining out since the beginning of Covid-19 and he's been eating some great food. Read his piece on New York's take-out scene here: https://ny.eater.com/2020/5/27/21270029/nyc-restaurant-dishes-takeout-pho-dosa-hot-dog. Hosts: Amanda Kludt (@kludt), Editor in Chief, Eater Daniel Geneen (@danielgeneen), Producer, Eater More to explore: Check out more great reporting from the Eater newsroom. Subscribe to Amanda’s weekly newsletter here. Follow Us: Eater.com Facebok.com/Eater YouTube.com/Eater @eater on Twitter and Instagram Get in Touch: [email protected] About Eater: Eater obsessively covers the world through the lens of food, telling stories via audio, television, digital video, and publications in 24 cities across the US and UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Once upon a time, Disney was a motion picture studio in a sea of Hollywood studios doing something nobody else was doing.

0:09.0

Disney's business is memory making. Disney's business is tradition.

0:15.0

But here's the thing about kingdoms.

0:17.0

They don't last forever.

0:18.0

To survive, Disney had to grow.

0:21.0

But has that tremendous growth eroded what made Disney, Disney.

0:24.3

And I don't know the world cares that this is a Disney movie anymore. I'm Joe

0:29.6

Italian. I'm hosting Land of the Giants, the Disney Telepa, from Bulcher on the Box Media Podcast Network.

0:35.0

Follow Land of the Giants wherever you listen to hear new episodes every Wednesday. Okay, Welcome to Eaters Digest to show about all things food and dining. I'm Amanda Clute editor and chief of

0:53.2

Eater. I'm Daniel Janine, a producer at Eater.

0:56.2

Amanda Clute this week we are talking to a good friend of ours, the senior

1:00.6

critic of Eater New York, Robert Seatsma.

1:03.0

That is right.

1:05.0

Robert loves restaurants, maybe more than anyone I know,

1:10.0

and I love the way he writes about and visits restaurants,

1:14.5

which means he's very democratic.

1:17.1

He's always hungry, you know, we'll just always

1:21.6

be sniffing around for a new place to eat and he's the type of person who would seem to go particularly

1:28.6

nuts being trapped inside during a quarantine he's kind of person, like there are so many people

1:34.8

who you say or I'll say or someone will say,

1:37.5

hey, I had this thing, you know, that you might like

1:41.3

or that I think you'd really like it's here it's you know 20

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