Since March 20, Am has not given a pan. The most unkind review he's ever received was from the odion em in San Francisco. "You can't kick someone when they're down," says Am of restaurants that are up or down.
Hannah Goldfield is the food critic at The New Yorker.
“There are just only so many ways to say ‘crunchy.’ There's ‘crunchy,’ there's ‘crisp,’ there's ‘crispy,’ you can say something ‘crackles,’ and that's kind of it. It's really, really hard. And a lot of things are crunchy. It's a really specific sensation that needs to be described. But I've had moments where I'm like, I can't say crunchy again in a sentence. What am I going to do? How do I get this across?”
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