Dinner with The Post’s food critic
Post Reports
The Washington Post
4.4 • 5.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Tom Sietsema has been The Post’s food critic for 25 years. Over a quarter of a century, Sietsema has eaten at and reviewed thousands of restaurants. Even after all these years, he’s not sick of it. In fact, Sietsema loves the theater of dining out, and he takes great pride in guiding readers toward truly delicious food.
Today’s show was produced by Ariel Plotnick. It was edited by Maggie Penman and mixed by Sam Bair.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you so much. |
| 0:02.7 | Cheers. |
| 0:04.0 | Cheers. |
| 0:05.0 | Cheers. |
| 0:06.0 | Yeah, I just say happy holidays. |
| 0:08.0 | Great to meet both of you. |
| 0:11.0 | Should I just like throw out some dishes then? |
| 0:14.0 | Yes. |
| 0:15.0 | You're in turn. |
| 0:16.0 | Do you eat or not eat anything? |
| 0:19.0 | I eat everything. |
| 0:20.0 | I eat everything. Oh, I love people like you. |
| 0:22.7 | A few weeks ago, I got to do something that I have been dreaming about for years. |
| 0:28.0 | I, along with audio producer Ariel Plotnick, went out to eat with Tom Sitsma, the senior food critic |
| 0:34.1 | for the Washington Post. |
| 0:35.7 | Let's get some crudow. |
| 0:37.1 | Let's get the, let's get the tuna crudo, please. |
| 0:40.3 | And if you got a facaque, is there one you especially like? |
| 0:45.3 | That's Tom there, ordering appetizers for the table. |
| 0:48.3 | For his job, he eats out almost every night of the week. |
| 0:52.3 | Over the course of his career, he has reviewed thousands of restaurants. |
| 0:57.6 | And on this particular night in early December, |
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