About this episode
Soleil Ho isn’t like other restaurant critics. She doesn’t use a star system to rate restaurants. She doesn’t use terms like “up-and-coming” or “ethnic” or “addictive,” and there’s a reason for that. Since she became the restaurant critic for the San Francisco Chronicle a few months ago, she’s been shaking things up, rethinking the system, and…yeah, pissing some people off. We talked about this approach and what a restaurant critic’s responsibility is to their city. We also got to catch up about some of Soleil’s writing for TASTE, about eating dogs , and about the difference between “fusion” and the food that results from assimilation . Later on the show, Matt asks Smitten Kitchen’s Deb Perelman a question from a listener.\ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices