"There was a restaurant critic who, when asked his opinion of certain Italian wines, answered that he drank only French wines. We may as well have restaurant writers who are vegetarians, or who eat only kosher food, or who cannot be bothered with fish because of the bones.
And when our critics are not averting their noses from what they did not learn to like at their mothers' knees or on the grand tour, they reserve judgment on what they eat until they have looked it up to see if it was made according to Hoyle. ... Some of these critics have never lost touch with their earliest educations, when the correct answers were in the back of the book."
- Seymour Britchky on restaurant criticism. His comments seem equally applicable to literary criticism.
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