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For this week’s Sunday Column, I discussed the changing nature of food writing and restaurant reviewing as the discussion moves online, and how today’s food writers seem disinclined to discuss healthfulness and good eating habits. Yeah, yummy burgers this ain’t.
Should writers promote health?
Recently I wrote a “First Look” of West Cobb Diner in Marietta — a new American bistro meets meat-and-three restaurant that has proven popular with its neighbors. A friend and I cut a short swath through the menu, focusing on a few appetizers and entrees that came with enthusiastic recommendation from our waitress and seemed like they would give us a taste of the kitchen’s style.
We ended up with a noodle salad, some mini crab cake sandwiches and three fried items.
The next day I got this e-mail from a reader:
“With obesity/diabetes at all time highs, it’s hard to understand why you feel it necessary to promote this type of restaurant. You are not the protector of our …