Us journalists aren't a precious bunch. Anyone who's seen Jay Rayner or Giles Coren selflessly chow down a foie gras and truffle dinner will know the score. A more humble, modest, self-effacing group you'd struggle to find outside of an Afghan Red Cross tent. And even they get battlefront immunity; cholesterol abides by no such rules.
So it was a little out of character when the anything-but-staunchly-defensive Fay Maschler got pernickety via email about our brief résumé of Charles Campion in October 16's Ask the Critics cover story, where we described him as "Restaurant critic of the Evening Standard":
My colleague and friend Charles Campion (Any Questions for the Critics) contributes articles on seasonal ingredients and a blog to the Evening Standard. He is not the Evening Standard restaurant critic. I am.
Fay Maschler.
Evening Standard
Other than a predilection for full-stops, you might notice an atypical note of stroppiness; Maschler defending her unique title with the voracity of an irksome Jack Russell guarding its dinner. Well, let's hope she's got a bag load more of full-stops, because a quick Google-search finds this introduction in the Evening Standard's website This is London:
"Evening Standard restaurant critic Charles Campion takes us through his top ten places to eat in London that won't cost a packet."
Maschler's one-in-one-out rule for Evening Standard restaurant critics doesn't seem too indoctrinated among the sub-editors. But then again, it'd be too silly to care. Wouldn't it?
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