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“I have like 10 different processes I go to. My favorite one is to just go to an obscure neighborhood I haven't been to in decades and just wander around.”

Quote by Robert Sietsema

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Robert Sietsema

Robert Sietsema is a renowned food critic whose career spans multiple areas including food writing, editing, and publishing. Although his exact birth and death dates are unknown, his contributions to the field of food culture and culinary criticism are significant. more

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“If you go around a time when you're hungry, around mealtime, then you have a desperate search to find something to eat and you have this interplay between approach and avoidance. You go in a place, you smell, if it doesn't smell so good you go to the next place, you look at all the people, they're happily eating, and then you choose that place. So having to reconnoiter, having to go on a kind of treasure hunt for food is one of my favorite things.”

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“The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.”

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“I pre-screen restaurants because my objective is to never have a bad meal, and I get pretty close to that.”

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“If I go into a restaurant and the food sucks I feel so depressed I just want to carve it in my wrist with the butter knife.”

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“You can't write about a horrible restaurant - if it's a Ma & Pa restaurant no one wants to see you kick Ma & Pa in the chops.”

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“There are a number of ways you can find out if a restaurant is good or not: just the way it looks can give you all these visual clues: is it well maintained? Is the décor slapdash or does it look like someone put some effort into it? The employees - do they look disgruntled or proud to be serving what they're serving. Even better, when you walk into a place you can look at the food.”

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Author:Robert Sietsema

“If a restaurant fumbles once I don't have to hold it against them, anyone can have a bad night.”

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“I love African food, I love Italian food, but I rarely eat Italian out because it's so easy to make at home. On the other hand, unless you have specialized equipment, Chinese food is really tough because you literally can't get the pan hot enough.”

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“I don't see many artists who are not trying to bring their work to the public - -to the contrary I see artists nearly desperate to get attention for their art and, failing that, often for themselves.”

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“I didn't truly understand the depth of my roots until I was old enough to wonder and care.”

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