best of 2012: the restaurant edition…

~ The title of this blog post is misleading. Superlatives, like the word “best,” are dangerous.  They’re almost always misused for profit. I have been critical of lists that claim authority over the designation “the best in the world.”  The absurdity of such declarations was captured brilliantly in the movie Elf, when Buddy discovers the “world’s […]

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best of 2012: the restaurant edition…

~ The title of this blog post is misleading. Superlatives, like the word “best,” are dangerous.  They’re almost always misused for profit. I have been critical of lists that claim authority over the designation “the best in the world.”  The absurdity of such declarations was captured brilliantly in the movie Elf, when Buddy discovers the “world’s […]

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review: cab ride to crazy town…

~ It’s not every day that one gets kidnapped on the way to dinner, as I was on my way to Jungsik. Afterwards, I read Pete Wells’s review of that restaurant in the New York Times and realized that my strange, “cab ride to crazy town” was foretold (fourth graph, last sentence). Thankfully, with some quick […]

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review: cab ride to crazy town…

~ It’s not every day that one gets kidnapped on the way to dinner, as I was on my way to Jungsik. Afterwards, I read Pete Wells’s review of that restaurant in the New York Times and realized that my strange, “cab ride to crazy town” was foretold (fourth graph, last sentence). Thankfully, with some quick […]

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