Two pro-cooking insiders (a chef and a writer) analyze the week’s biggest industry news and engage in shop talk with a wide variety of guests, ranging from A-list chefs to line cooks, culinary students, writers, and icons. With guests booked just days before each episode, THE FRONT BURNER WITH JIMMY AND ANDREW will help listeners make sense of goings-on in the cooking trade by allowing them to hear directly from newsmakers and experts live and in their own voices. Think of it as Meet the Press, for chefs.
A number of long-simmering tensions between chefs and the media recently boiled over following the New York Times bombshell Per Se review. An all-star round-table representing both camps, and several generations, join Jimmy and Andrew to make sense of it all this week: Drew Nieporent, Hanna Raskin, Sam Sifton, Alex Stupak, Ryan Sutton, and David Waltuck. We discuss the complicated and evolving relationship between these two populations: Should reviews be written/consumed as entertainment? Does the star system still make sense? Why the recent critical focus on value? Is it appropriate for chefs to respond to critics and — if so — how? A rare opportunity to hear these two populations exchange ideas about this complex, hot-button topic.
“A bad review is something that I don’t feel a need to respond to, but I take very much to heart and I think all restauranteurs and chefs do.” [16:00]
–David Waltuck on The Front Burner
“At its best, the critic can act as a translator, explainer, or reporter who is divining what is going on here culturally as opposed to what is going on here from a business perspective.” [17:50]
–Sam Sifton on The Front Burner
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