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Sam Sifton
Thanksgiving
Nov. 26, 2014
The New York Times Pens Legendary Correction for Its Big Thanksgiving Bungled chile peppers and misidentified pawpaws, but no mention of grape salad.
By Hugh Merwin
Burning Questions
Oct. 2, 2014
Sam Sifton Is Inspiring Tomorrow’s Food Critics on Reddit The NYT Cooking poobah says he got some medium-rare fried cow brain in St. Louis one time.
By Hugh Merwin
Appointments
July 30, 2014
Sam Sifton Will Edit the Times ’ Newly Renamed ‘Food’ The newspaper man and former critic is the first to hold the job title since Craig Claiborne.
By Hugh Merwin
Quote of the Day
Oct. 21, 2013
Sam Sifton Waxes Philosophical on Cockroaches It’s not the roach itself, he says, it’s what the roach stands for.
By Hugh Merwin
The New York Times Closes Down Diner’s Journal Another big announcement from the newspaper’s food section.
By Hugh Merwin
ink-stained wretches
July 12, 2013
By Joe Coscarelli
Sam Sifton Returning to Food Coverage at the New York Times The former critic has a big, new role at the paper, part of which involves a new “dining news product.”
By Hugh Merwin
Dinner Parties
Dec. 14, 2012
By Hugh Merwin
The Other Critics
Oct. 12, 2012
By Hugh Merwin
Quote of the Day
Oct. 10, 2012
By Alan Sytsma
The New York Diet
Oct. 5, 2012
By Alyssa Shelasky
The Quest For Better Bagels
Sept. 5, 2012
By Hugh Merwin
Neighborhood Watch
Aug. 29, 2012
The Sifty Red Hook Burgers, you bet. Late night and delivery? Fuggedaboutit.
By Jenny Miller
Chasing Choi
July 12, 2012
Sam Sifton Waxes Poetic on Roy Choi The scribe calls the chef a poet, whose verses “taste of Los Angeles.”
By Hadley Tomicki
President Obama’s Shark Fin Faux-Pas; Dino’s Burgers Opens in Pico-Rivera Tongues wag as The Commander in Chief goes to one of San Francisco’s last restaurant’s serving the banned delicacy.
Other Cities
Nov. 15, 2011
Sifton’s Replacement at the NYT : Pete Wells He’s been Dining Editor at the paper since 2006.
By Jay Barmann
The Other Critics
Oct. 25, 2011
By Alan Sytsma
ink-stained wretches
Oct. 19, 2011
By Noreen Malone
Quote of the Day
Oct. 12, 2011
Putting a Critic to Bed Jeffrey Tascarella pens a postscript to the Sifton years.
By Jenny Miller
Other Cities
Oct. 11, 2011
By Jay Barmann
Waxing Poetic
Oct. 11, 2011
By Alan Sytsma
The Other Critics
Sept. 28, 2011
Is Sam Sifton Fixing to Re-Review Per Se? He’s been spotted there a few times, and the ‘Times’ sent a photog over.
By Jenny Miller
Quote of the Day
Sept. 26, 2011
Sam Sifton Sorta Helped a Pre-Fame Bourdain Get Famous The origin story of Anthony Bourdain, Media Titan, continues.
By Hugh Merwin
Sifting Through Sifton
Sept. 14, 2011
Eddie Huang: Sifton Understood Food As Pop Culture “His real contribution is that he saw food in its proper cultural place as a part of the STYLE section.”
By Jenny Miller
Other Cities
Sept. 13, 2011
By Jay Barmann
The Times Is Love-Addicted to Roberta’s In case the earthquake caused short-term memory loss, the ‘Times’ thinks Roberta’s is really good.
By Alyssa Shelasky
Chez Sifton
Aug. 19, 2011
Four Stars to Sam Sifton’s Realtor He says Masa is overpriced, but was his house?
By Alyssa Shelasky
The Other Critics
Aug. 17, 2011
By Nick Kindelsperger
Quote of the Day
Aug. 2, 2011
Well, It Is a Good Book Sam Sifton sneaks a book plug into his latest review.
By Alan Sytsma
Hosni Mubarak Refuses Solid Food; Hunger Worsens in Horn of Africa The deposed dictator is on a hunger strike of sorts as he sits in an Egyptian cell.
The Other Critics
June 23, 2011
By Alan Sytsma
The Other Critics
June 14, 2011
Sifton Strips Masa of Its Fourth Star There are “wrinkles in Masa’s fine silk.”
By Daniel Maurer
The Other Critics
June 3, 2011
Sam Sifton’s Salty Prose A compilation of the ‘Times’ critic’s beach bard moments.
By Daniel Maurer
Sifton Tries to Out-Bulli Platt “The other night I was teleported to Ferran Adria’s El Bulli with my exceedingly close friend, the actress Reese Witherspoon.”
By Daniel Maurer
Bourdain Takes Beards Battle to Twitter And a food writer threatens to compare him to Guy Fieri.
By Daniel Maurer
We Do Sort of Wish Sam Sifton Could Get Away With Stuff Like This A.A. Gill gets to use all sorts of dirty words that the ‘Times’ critic probably wishes he could.
By Alan Sytsma
The Other Critics
Mar. 3, 2011
Saveur and Saran Clash Over Sifton’s Fishtag ReviewA publisher on the chef’s side and a chef on the critic’s side? Now this is different.
By Daniel Maurer
the wandering eye of the gray lady
Feb. 11, 2011
By Chris Rovzar
The NYC Dining World According to Sam Sifton: A Pop Quiz! Can you guess which restaurant has the “the richest and most coddled people in the city”? Or the one with a clientele “pulled from rejected ‘Sex and the City’ scripts”?
By Daniel Maurer
Mimi Sheraton Considers Herself a ‘Bestovore’ Plus, she has more to say about Brooklyn and Sam Sifton.
By Daniel Maurer
The Other Critics
Nov. 23, 2010
By Daniel Maurer
The Other Critics
Nov. 17, 2010
Sam Sifton Knows How to Work an Expense Account The New York Times restaurant critic heads to Alinea and writes about it for no real reason at all.
By Nick Kindelsperger
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