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This is Mill Street Radio from PRX, and I'm your host, Christopher Kimball.

Last summer, New York Times critic Pete Wells did something surprising. He quit writing restaurant reviews.

Today he joins us to look back on his career, including his most famous review of Guy Fieri's

Times Square Restaurant. You know, I hope enough time has gone by that if I do run into him,

he doesn't take a sock at my jaw, but if he does,

I'll understand.

Plus Pete makes me reconsider my big pet peeve, restaurant noise.

If you wanted to sit in complete silence, you could just sit at home, and you don't need

to go out.

If you go out, you're kind of buying in to other people.

The world, according to Pete Wells, that's coming up later in the show.

But first, it's time to answer your cooking questions with my co-host, Sarah Malton.

Sarah is, of course, the star of Sarah's Weeknight Meals on Public Television, also author of Home Cooking 101.

Sarah, so this show, I'm interviewing Pete Wells, which was a great privilege for me,

but you worked in restaurants like La Toulip, and your opinion of restaurant critics

may be slightly different than mine.

So were you guys afraid of restaurant critics may be slightly different than mine. So were you guys afraid of restaurant critics? Did you know what they look like? Did you have their photos on the wall in the kitchen?

You know, did you have a plan in case one of them walked into the restaurant? Well, I worked in

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