Dear ELV,
Are there any rules for critiquing your friends as food critics?
ELV’s Thought(s) for the Day
Critics are like eunuchs in a harem. They’re there every night, they see it done every night, they see how should be done every night, but they can’t do it themselves. – Brendan Behan
Critics are like eunuchs at a gang bang. – George Burns
A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car. – Kenneth Tynan
The Dilemma of Free Food
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Since ELV seems destined never to pay for a bite of food at Old Homestead, he approaches this “review” of it with caution, as should you.
This is hardly something new around the ELV offices, as our non-anonymity is now ubiquitous (we even get busted in Chinatown these days). So it is among other critics (in Vegas and elsewhere) as well, but it still gives us pause before we launch into telling you what we really think of a place, since it’s obvious to both of us that the experience we’re writing about will not exactly be yours.