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Entries from September 2011

The End of the Restaurant Reviewer?

September 16th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Commentary

A Facebook friend, Mary Luz Mejia, posted a fascinating link on her page today (see below).  The piece takes off from Sam Sifton’s resignation as restaurant reviewer from the NY Times to take over the National desk at the paper.  …

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Is Pakistan Behind Today’s Big Food News?

September 14th, 2011 · No Comments · Commentary

So far, let’s be honest: There is no evidence to suggest that the Haqqani network is behind the resignation of Sam Sifton as restaurant critic at The New York Times nor the hare-brained review of Legal in today’s Boston Globe.  …

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Monday Morning Blues

September 12th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Commentary

I have heard, just a rumor, that the new DSM-V, out in January, 2012, will include a diagnostic code for a disorder called, “Monday Morning Blues,” or 234.10 or MMB, as it is known to sufferers.  In an article related …

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Kerala Karavan: Onam Blues

September 6th, 2011 · No Comments · Commentary

So this is Onam, and what have we done?  Another year older, a new one just begun.  Well, it’s over for me, at least, as we fly to Mumbai today at 1:55 P.M.

Yesterday evening a boy nearly drowned in …

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