I do get lots of links to advance screeners, which helps, but there's no way I could do my job without the full-on cable subscription.

My work is very much like the restaurant critic's - a number of factors come together to make for a strong review.

Never forget that I am paid for my troubles!

I do get lots of links to advance screeners, which helps, but there's no way I could do my job without the full-on cable subscription.

One of the dirty little secrets of my job is that I don't do ANY food or cooking shows.

I love commercials. I love to hate commercials, too. I talk back to them.

We got Arbitron diaries at my house in the 1980s, when the family was down to just my mother and me, and we tried for a couple of days to fill it out (I of course treated it like we'd been asked to write a new book of the Bible), but we got really bored with it and gave it up.