Over at Simply Simon, a blog that also covers life and faith as well as Melbourne and food, there is something I should bear in mind not just on this blog but in my new column in The Herald Sun:
“Food critics can be a pompous lot. I’ve said before that much restaurant criticism is little more than posturing: ‘Look at me!’ the reviewer says, ‘Don’t I write well and with such culinary wit?’ The truth is, as a person deeply interested in food and in the restaurant culture of my city, I find most reviews boring and unhelpful.”
He reviews Kitchen Con: Writing on the restaurant racket
Simon Says: “Perhaps the most helpful point that White makes is that good restaurant criticism needs itself to be hospitable, welcoming to and empowering of its readers. There is no place for pomposity.”
My copy is about a week away, awaiting departure from Staufenberg in Germany together with the Penin Guide to Spanish Wine
