Word: forks
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...question for Michelin, of course, is whether its star system and fork-and-spoon ratings for "comfort" are coming to America too late to be relevant. In France, Michelin has traditionally lionized places in villages and towns in the countryside, inspiring foodies in Paris and Lyon to hop in Le Car (and wear out the tires). Yet it's hard to imagine New Yorkers really needing to be informed, via another guide, that Le Bernardin serves three-star-caliber seafood or that the best porterhouse in town is at Peter Luger (recipient of a star). And tourists can pick...
Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat: A pair of old warriors choose to follow the fork in the road toward peace -- and history...
Here’s my argument: That class system is always gonna be there. Jerks are jerks, now and forever. Even in a Fork-free environment, people are going to find out about obscure yam-based concertos, and lord that information over those who don’t. What Pitchfork does is actually widen the playing field, and harness the power of the jerks to empower the non-jerks...
...won’t deny that Pitchfork sometimes sways my opinion one way or the other—it took me a bit longer to come around to the new Beck album than it may have, had the Fork reviewer described it as great—but ultimately, people tend to go on listening to music that they like and making their own judgments on it. They merely have a way to find additional music that might interest them...
Perhaps my instinct to hop on the anti-Fork bandwagon (a smaller, more dilapidated wagon then the Fork model itself) stems from my attachment to word-of-mouth, an age-old method of discovery that necessitates… gasp…real human interaction on some level. If you sit alone and bulldoze through the recent reviews on Pitchfork, it seems to perpetuate the isolationist, ever-headphoned culture that I most concretely associate with those “discovering themselves” on Pitchfork. Spend that time talking and listening to music with other people, branch out and meet...