Longtime Village Voice food writer Robert Sietsema writes about restaurant reviewing from Craig Claiborne to modern-day food blogging.
In short, restaurant reviewing has come a long way from what it used to be in the mid-20th century. Claiborne applied journalism ethics to the way writers rated restaurants. Gael Greene taught writers how to describe food with words that would make readers salivate. Veteran food bloggers Brooke Burton and Leah Greenstein showed their fellow bloggers that yes, there’s even ethics in online restaurant reviewing.
Sietsema, it’s a great piece, and thanks so much for including blogs in your piece — it provides meaningful context in the movement of food writing.
Read it here, and let me know what you think in the comments below.
http://www.cjr.org/feature/everyone_eats.php?page=all
