In the January 2011 issue of Food Network Magazine, Frank Bruni, former food critic for The New York Times, offers this advice about landing a job in the culinary, journalism world:
"When I hear about someone teaching a course on how to be a restaurant critic, I feel it's like teaching a course on how to be an astronaut."
So, what you're saying, Frank, is that funds recently sunk into my tuition for Boston University's Gastronomy Program may have been better spent on the purchase of a small spaceship? Duly noted.
(this golden nugget of culinary advice was actually gleaned from an article assigned as homework for my Food Writing for Print Media course)
"When I hear about someone teaching a course on how to be a restaurant critic, I feel it's like teaching a course on how to be an astronaut."
So, what you're saying, Frank, is that funds recently sunk into my tuition for Boston University's Gastronomy Program may have been better spent on the purchase of a small spaceship? Duly noted.
(this golden nugget of culinary advice was actually gleaned from an article assigned as homework for my Food Writing for Print Media course)
I've never met an astronaut who didn't take How to Be an Astronaut 101. Keep writing and studying...just don't sign up for the moon with Gingrich. Love, -L
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