>> Thanks, Bob....echoing ASmith. As a one time small market newspaper
>> restaurant critic given to reading other and better examples - food
>> and writing, I appreciated her perspective.
>>
>> Now I'm off to Italy, mostly Tuscany, for three weeks, where I intend
>> to develop and refine my perspectives toward food and wine.


I do smell a touch of irony. The article in question bemoans how food
"reporting" has become a matter of presenting impossible foods for people
who don't bother to cook and of going off into panegyrics at the
manipulation of groups like the olive oil industry...