The narrative appetizers in Ian Parker’s article about New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells in the Sept. 12 issue of The New Yorker include details about the critic’s attempts not to be recognized in Chelsea at Momofuku Nishi, a quick history of restaurant reviewing at the Times and this fascinating tidbit offered up by former Wells colleague Jeff Gordinier:
Gordinier had spoken with me about Wells’s chances of remaining anonymous by referring to a famous contractual demand made by Van Halen: concert promoters were asked to supply the band with a backstage bowl of M&M’s, with the brown ones removed.
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