Is the $25 meal ceiling for Peter Meehans reviews of inexpensive restaurants finally going to change?
The cost of a meal in New York has gone crazy, and we need to keep current. You’ve covered a lot of regional cooking. Will the dining section get into that? I’m very interested in New York City’s regional food supply — where our food comes from and who grows or catches or raises it. It would be fun to start talking about that in an integrated way and not just run profiles of farmers here and there. What does the proliferation of blogs mean to the Times? No one has forgotten your Food & Wine smackdown of the bloggerati. Blogs are not our competition. What print media do and what bloggers do complement each other; they shouldn’t be competing. You can’t be looking forward to the kind of hourly scrutiny you’ll be under, though. I’m sure I’ll be giving Eater new things to roast me over. [But] getting smart criticism can help clarify your ideas.
