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Let the Critics Out of the Closet

Anonymity turns restaurant critics into some kind of stealthy ninja with a distant or even adversarial stance, and this benefits no one.

                                      
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        'Food Whore' Critiques the City of Dining and Deceit
    
Megan Volpert

        13 Dec 2015

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