Inside the Weird World of Restaurant Critics

Eater's Digest

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4.4 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

On its surface, restaurant criticism sounds like a pretty great gig. But dining out on the company dime, trying all the best new restaurants and getting paid to eat dinner out isn’t all that glamorous when you peak behind the curtain. We called in two critics, Bon Appétit Deputy Editor Julia Kramer, who’s responsible for the magazine’s annual Hot 10 list, and our own Ryan Sutton, who covers New York, to tell us about the making of a restaurant review and the things that make their line of work uniquely strange. We also get into the biggest food stories of the week, from Popeye’s wildly popular new sandwich, to a beloved Brooklyn pizza joint getting nailed for tax evasion and a Cheeto-fueled conspiracy theory surrounding a certain tech giant. Stories: • Popeye’s vs. Everyone Else • Di Fara Shuttered for Tax Evasion • Does Jeff Bezos Know How to Eat Cheetos? Featuring: Julia Kramer (@juliakramer) Ryan Sutton (@qualityrye) 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
0:34.0	Podcast Network. Follow Land of the Giants wherever you listen to hear new
0:38.0	episodes every Wednesday.
0:42.0	From the newsroom at Eder, I'm Amanda Cloot.
0:45.0	And I am Daniel Janine.
0:47.0	And this is Eder's Digest, a show about all things food and dining.
0:50.0	With little help from the biggest names in the world of food and the team here at Eater,
0:53.6	we try to understand what's happening right now in kitchens, restaurants, and dining rooms
0:57.2	around the world. Today on the show we're going to talk about what it's like to be a
1:00.0	restaurant critic. We have two prominent critics coming in, one who works in the New York area
1:05.6	and one who works on a national scale. And they are going to talk about behind the scenes,
1:10.1	what it's really like, it's not all glamorous the overeating the grind of
1:16.3	filing restaurant reviews all the time and the weight that it bears on them
1:20.4	deciding between restaurants and writing negative reviews.
1:24.0	From there we're going to get into the biggest stories of the week including the Popeye's
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