A Restaurant Critic (Ours) On the Year That Changed Him Forever

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🗓️ 23 December 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

During his time as a restaurant critic for The Times, Pete Wells has become both feared and revered in the world of dining — crowning those at the top and dethroning those whose time has passed. But when the pandemic arrived, handing out stars to fancy restaurants made no sense anymore. A fundamental change was needed. Guest: Pete Wells, a restaurant critic for The New York Times.

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0:00.0	Hi, hi, how are you?
0:07.0	Nice to see you, Pete.
0:10.0	How have you been?
0:11.0	I'm four years old.
0:14.0	You know?
0:15.0	Last time right now?
0:18.0	Okay, Pete.
0:19.0	So we're going to put this on.
0:21.0	What's all right?
0:23.0	Maybe like a little pellet here?
0:26.0	That's fun.
0:27.0	So Pete, I just want to explain to people what's happening here.
0:29.0	All right.
0:30.0	So it is around 6.45 on a Friday night.
0:36.0	Pete Wells just arrived.
0:39.0	The famed New York Times restaurant credit.
0:42.0	He's now opening his shirt in the middle of a public park in Chinatown
0:46.0	so that a microphone can be affixed to his shirt so that we might
0:51.0	surreptitiously dine with you and experience firsthand what it's like to review
0:57.0	a restaurant for the August New York Times.
1:00.0	And it's quite a sight to behold.
1:03.0	It's open-shirted.
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