Saturday, April 23, 2016

Detroit Free Press!!-----Major Restaurant Critic: “My Job is to Promote Social Justice, Labor Rights”

Major Restaurant Critic: “My Job is to Promote Social Justice, Labor Rights” – The Bernie Sanders Food Critic:
"...And that’s where the newspaper’s newly-inducted restaurant critic, Mark Kurlyandchik–a hipster who previously worked for Al-Jazeera America–comes in.
On Sunday, in a half-page column, Kurlyandchik introduced himself as the new critic, “replacing” the paper’s fabulous, retired former critic Sylvia Rector...
In his introduction, Kurlyandchik, an attendee of UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism and tattooed self-styled filmmaker (the ultimate experience for being a food critic!), slipped in what his real agenda will be when he reviews restaurants:
Bernie-Sanders-esque, Al-Jazeerafied politics. Kurlyandchick declared that he will review restaurants
"...through my own lens, using Detroit’s food scene as a window into all the issues it touches: environmental sustainability, social justice, labor rights, economic development and equality."
HUH?!
Um, whatever happened to reviewing restaurants based on the quality of the food, the level of service, and the ambiance of the dining experience and location?
Now, this Al-Jazeera hipster will apparently rate restaurants based on whether they donate a portion of profits to “Syrian refugees” or pay their employees $15 per hour and give them six weeks paid family leave a la his previous home of San Francisco.
He already noted in a review of one of the restaurants he picked among Detroit’s top ten for the year, that he liked the fact that the wait staff were pierced and tattooed.
Really?
Does that make your food more delectable–that the person serving it has more outlets from which to ooze germs and disease?.."

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