Jay McInerney Was Almost the NYT Restaurant Critic

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🗓️ 4 September 2017

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Jay McInerney, author of Bright Lights, Big City and the recent Bright, Precious Days, was already a successful novelist when he started writing about wine more than two decades ago. This may be why his columns for House & Garden, the Wall Street Journal, and currently, Town & Country stand out from other writing on the subject and have been published as standalone volumes. On this week’s Eater Upsell, McInerney chats with Helen and Greg about possibly setting off the rosé craze, the trouble with maintaining a wine collection, and why New York is still the best restaurant city in America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Eater Uppsall, part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. As always, I, Helen
0:08.6	Rosner and my co-host Greg Moribito, are here talking with some of the coolest
0:12.3	most interesting people in the entire world about food and stuff related to food.
0:17.0	This week, Greg and I are talking with Jay McInerney, who you may know as the ultra famous successful novelist behind the iconic 80s New York novel
0:25.7	Bright Lights Big City. He's also a pretty big wine buff and for the last 20 years
0:30.5	has been writing about wine for publications like the Wall Street Journal and
0:33.4	town and country.
0:35.1	Greg and I talk with Jay about pretty much what you'd expect, doing Coke in the 80s,
0:40.6	where to get a great Bordeaux, what it's like being a person who both is part of and
0:45.4	a chronicler of the world of the ultra wealthy, it's a rad conversation.
0:49.8	We're going to get to it in just a second.
0:52.2	Greg, what's on your mind? I don't know if we've ever
0:54.4	actually had a formal conversation about the subject of avocados and avocado toast and
1:02.0	avocado toast.
1:04.0	And I actually don't know, Helen, what is your, do you have an opinion about avocados and
1:08.8	avocado toast just off the bat?
1:11.4	My gut feeling is avocados are fantastic and avocato toast is delicious.
1:18.4	I agree but more I agree to the second part of it. I I was I love avocado toast I mean I'm a you know you
1:26.4	You live in California you're legally required to yeah and I'm you know in that age of people I suppose that really loves avocado toast but I was
1:35.1	thinking like you know over the last few years it seems like people have really
1:40.0	embraced avocados and the toast made from them, but it becomes this thing that like
1:45.9	millennials want avocados and subway is going to start offering avocados on its sandwiches and
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