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| Was any of this restaurant meat raised on antibiotics and other harmful additives? Don't expect a heads-up from Staff Writer Elisa Ung, The Record's restaurant reviewer. |
The Record's front page today is dominated by a Manhattan skyscraper that is still under construction and photographs that, frankly, are far from impressive.
The front of Local is dominated by Columnist Mike Kelly getting off on what he calls "a rock," as only this good Catholic could.
Above that L-1 text-and-photo package, readers get the latest news on sidewalk ramps.
Newsroom infestation
And as if the front of the local-news section couldn't get any weirder, Road Warrior John Cichowski selects the rare closure of a rail station from lice for his column on commuting problems.
It's another dull Sunday edition from Editor Marty Gottlieb and head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes, who continues to throw crumbs to Hackensack readers looking for news.
On L-6 today, the lack of information in a Hackensack stabbing story may be due to police officers punishing The Record for its overwhelmingly favorable coverage of the defense being mounted by suspended Police Chief Ken Zisa, who is on trial in Superior Court.
Burying a lively obit
All this brick-and-mortar "news" is front and center, but a local obituary on "a lively redhead," Eileen Demarest of Bloomingdale, is buried on L-3.
Here's a great line: "The closest Eileen came to fishing was opening a can of tuna."
Two Kelly columns
Is this the first time Kelly has had two columns in one edition (L-1 and O-1)?
The Opinion piece scolding Governor Christie for his big mouth exposes Kelly's disdain for unions, but I question why it isn't on Page 1 today.
More copy desk errors
On A-6 today, the caption with the photo of Holy Cross Cemetery in North Arlington is wrong on two scores:
The cemetery is in Bergen County -- not "Hudson County" -- and readers can see at least 10 buildings in Manhattan, not "the few New York skyline structures" described so stiffly in the caption.
"New York skyline structures ... "? Who the hell wrote that and who approved it?
"New York skyline structures ... "? Who the hell wrote that and who approved it?
Restaurant Reviewer Elisa Ung really lets down readers today with her Sunday column on restaurant food that doesn't live up to its billing on menus (The Corner Table, F-1).
The real concern is not whether fish is "fresh." The most important things customers want to know is whether fish is wild-caught and sustainable or farm-raised.
"Aged" beef? Who cares?
How many times has Ung willingly conspired with a chef by praising an outrageously expensive steak that was raised on harmful antibiotics, growth hormones and animal byproducts (bits of dead animals)?
She couldn't care less. The paper is paying for all the food she reviews, including those artery clogging desserts she crams down her gaping maw.
And she probably feeds leftovers from her restaurant meals to her husband and child, firm in the knowledge that all of them will live forever.
"Was any of this restaurant meat raised on antibiotics and other harmful additives? Don't expect a heads-up from Staff Writer Elisa Ung, The Record's restaurant reviewer."
ReplyDeleteDidn't you take this picture on your other blog?
http://doyoureallyknowwhatyoureeating.blogspot.com
And didn't you also neglect to say if it was "raised on antibiotics and other harmful additives?"
"Carnivores will delight at the abundance of raw meat on the buffet," I believe you wrote.
Monkey see, monkey do. Monkey poop all over you.
That photo is from an all-you-can-eat Korean restaurant in Edison.
ReplyDeleteI don't eat meat, didn't eat there and didn't recommend anyone else eat there (I ate tofu in another place)-- completely opposite from what Elisa Ung does.
She praises the taste of aged steaks, hamburgers, pork and so forth without telling readers how the animals were raised.
That was my point -- she is being irresponsible as a food journalist.
Thanks for careful reading of my two blogs.