Restaurant Critic Highlights Another Good Reason for Shedding Anonymity
Minneapolis Star Tribune's Rick Nelson confirms just how few people he was fooling.
In a video-interview reveal at the beginning of the week with Vineeta Sawkar, Minneapolis Star Tribune restaurant critic Rick Nelson (pictured) suggested that the age-old practice of people in his profession trying to remain anonymous had become “silly” and “a charade.” Today, in a separate Q&A with taste editor Lee Svitak Dean, he confirms just how futile the effort was:
”I recently asked a chef if he could estimate the percentage of local chefs who don’t recognize me. He just laughed and said, ‘One.'”
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