History of Restaurant Reviewers

I am writing an entry about restaurant reviewers for the Encyclopedia of Food and Agriculture Ethics.

Other than Duncan Hines (this was before he became better known for his cake mix company), most reviews of restaurants were found in the food sections of the women’s pages. The NY Times’ Craig Claiborne is probably the best known early newspaper food critic as he invented the four-star rating system. Jane Nickerson had reviewed restaurants for the NYT prior to Claiborne.

Here is a previous entry about food critics and the women’s pages.

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