The Best Fed Man in America

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4.4 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Bill Addison spends nearly all of his time on the road, deciphering American dining as a whole. Every year he presents his findings in a list called America's 38 Essential Restaurants. Everyone (including Bill) thinks Bill has the greatest job on the planet, but it has its drawbacks. Also- eater senior critic Robert Sietsema takes us on a little tour of some new carts that have popped up in Brooklyn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Eater Upself, podcast from the Vox Media Podcast Network. My name is Daniel Janine. I'm an associate
0:06.7	producer here and today on the Upsell we are talking to the best fed man in America. it is Mr. Bill Addison. Every year Bill puts together a list
0:16.6	called America's 38 essential restaurants. That is the 38 most essential restaurants in America.
0:25.0	To put this list together, Bill spends all of his time on the road touring through cities,
0:32.0	eating one, two, and three meals a night.
0:35.1	We talk a little bit with Bill about how fricking hard that is and how everyone thinks he
0:40.1	has the best job in the world.
0:41.8	And although he loves the job job it takes a toll.
0:45.1	He says he's starting to reach his threshold a little bit.
0:47.8	Bill Addison has been a restaurant critic for 15 years.
0:50.7	He started in Atlanta. He moved to San Francisco and then to Dallas and then
0:54.7	back to Atlanta magazine where he was the restaurant editor and food critic before
0:58.5	coming on board with Eater in 2014 for what he calls and what someone say is the dream job of all dream jobs.
1:06.8	As always a couple of plugs.
1:08.2	It'd be great if you rated and subscribed and shoot us an email at upsell at eater.com with comments and suggestions.
1:15.0	Ooh and stay tuned because after our conversation with Bill we're going to go on a little
1:19.0	walking tour with Robert Sitemah who is eater New Critic, he's going to take us to check out some
1:25.3	new carts that have opened up off the Myrtle Wyckoff station in Brooklyn.
1:29.7	That's all.
1:30.7	So enjoy this conversation with Bill Addison.
1:35.0	I'm on the road usually around three weeks out of the month.
1:41.0	This year I sort of blew up my life. I sold my house in May. My car was
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