Category Archives: Food Politics

Restaurant Workers, Restaurant Patrons—
Disconnect Remains

By ruhlman | Published: May 12, 2010
Photo by Donna For all the interest in food, chefs, and restaurants, the popularity of "Top Chef" and other shows depicting professional restaurant work, most poeple still have no clear conception of the unique, bizarre, intense, exhalted, depraved, mysterious human stew that restaurants are. Yesterday, New York Times writer Ron Lieber blogged about being kicked out of [...]
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Ruth Reichl’s Remarks on Gourmet’s Demise

By ruhlman | Published: April 24, 2010
Ruth Reichl addressing the IACP conference in Portland Thursday   Nine hours door to door from Cleveland to my hotel room and I was hungry.  The fine folks in Portland organizing the International Association of Culinary professionals, had filled the room with Portland products, wine beer coffee candy and, lo, some serious local beef jerky.  Dense sweet [...]
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Ohio: Vote No on Issue 2

By ruhlman | Published: November 1, 2009
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Veggie U Benefit, Milan, OH

By ruhlman | Published: July 20, 2009
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Cheesecake Factory:
The Alexander Challenge

By ruhlman | Published: July 11, 2009
A visit to the Cheesecake Factory In Suburban Cleveland, or, How To Use a Fancy Pants Word Like "Insipid" Twice In a Two-Minute Video (insipid: 1. without flavor, tasteless 2. not exciting or interesting, dull; lifeless). A week or so ago I made fun of author and journalist Kelly Alexander after she wrote an article [...]
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