Tag: restaurant alma

Are Restaurant Critics Obsolete?

Jeremy Iggers — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:12:12 -0500

The 2008 James Beard Awards for best restaurant, best chef, best cookbook, etc. were announced yesterday, and Minnesota got skunked. We had three chefs in the running for Best Chef Midwest

Zimmern's Complaint

Ann Bauer — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 14:48:00 -0600

Here's what happened. Mitch Omer -- one of my dearest friends in this world -- showed up at my house on Thanksgiving with a red-lined version of Andrew Zimmern's December column, livid about some of the things it contained. Mitch railed. I defended Andrew on many points. We got into a bit of a tiff, which we worked out in about 30 seconds over a nice Cabernet. Then we moved on.

Top Ten Tastes of 2007

Ann Bauer — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 09:53:16 -0600

Truth to tell, I'm not a big fan of these end-of-year Top Ten lists. They tend, I think, to be both subjective and showy: meaning listmakers record either what's obscurely relevant to them or what will demonstrate their great intellect and breadth of knowledge, or both.