0The Dallas Morning News' new restaurant critic and dining editor is Leslie Brenner, an accomplished critic, author and editor from Los Angeles. She'll start in mid-February, replacing Bill Addison. While awaiting her arrival, check out her Web site.
Read on for the official announcement.
Leslie Brenner Named Restaurant Critic and Dining Editor for The Dallas Morning News
DALLAS (January 21, 2009) - The Dallas Morning News announced today that Leslie Brenner, an accomplished food/restaurant critic, author and editor, has been named its new restaurant critic and dining editor.
"We are excited to have someone with Leslie's experience coming to The Dallas Morning News and GuideLive.com. Her enthusiasm and knowledge will invigorate our dining coverage and help readers get the most from the local dining scene," said Cathy Barber, deputy GuideDaily editor. "Leslie says she will arrive, fork in hand, in mid-February."
Brenner was most recently the Sunday magazine editor at the Los Angeles Times, and before that, directed restaurant, cooking and wine coverage as Food Editor for that paper's award-winning section. She was also a restaurant critic for the Los Angeles Times and founding editor of The Daily Dish food blog.
She is author or co-author of five food and wine books, including The Fourth Star: Dispatches from Inside Daniel Boulud's Celebrated New York Restaurant and American Appetite, as well as a critically acclaimed novel, Greetings from the Golden State. She has won a long list of writing and editing awards, including from the Association of Food Journalists and the James Beard Foundation. During her 20-year career, she has also been a contributing editor at Travel + Leisure and has written for Harper's, New York magazine, and many other print and online publications. She has a B.A. in English from Stanford University and an M.F.A. in writing from Columbia University.
Brenner has been in the thick of the food scene for most of her life. She once spent a week eating in Japan with Lee Hefter, executive chef of L.A.'s Spago; a year behind the scenes at New York's famed Daniel restaurant; and long weekends cooking at the Dordogne farmhouse of Francois Mitterand's former chef. She has dined in top restaurants across the country and around the world.
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What a joke!!
Talk about self-serving writing! "The Dallas Morning News is Texas' LEADING newspaper..." It is certainly leading in layoffs, reductions of news coverage, lessening of helpfulness to its readers. If this is "Texas' leading" newspaper, may the Lord help us all.
The Houston Chronicle is the leading newspaper...highest circulation and the best website. I can't stand Houston but I can't deny that they have the best paper...by far!
Welcome to Texas, Ms. Brenner. Above of some of the many "literate" Texans you will have to deal with.
They wouldn't know good food, or good writing, from kosher ham.
She's not going to get much of a severance.
Brenner is a rock star. I wouldn't want to be the first big restaurant in her crosshairs!
Looking forward to it, welcome to Dallas.
She's about as much of a rock star as dead lettuce. She'll bring Regina Schrambling, and never write about local food.
What she is a disaster for ANY organization. She is mean , vicious and conniving . She's also a sadist . Has no people skills .
She is sooooo disliked in food circles .
Foodies/restaurants in Dallas will have a very
rude awakening .
You have been warned people .
Mean, vicious, conniving...she ought to fit right in.
Hmm. She sounds like what we are getting is, an egocentric pulitzer wannabe.
"She once spent a week eating in Japan with Lee Hefter, executive chef of L.A.'s Spago; a year behind the scenes at New York's famed Daniel restaurant; and long weekends cooking at the Dordogne farmhouse of Francois Mitterand's former chef."
Is she a food groupie? It sounds like she's all hat and no cattle.
"Mean, vicious, conniving...she ought to fit right in."-Posted by NN
This is a tough group...did the comments from Side Dish get routed over here?
Seems like lots of folks have opinions about our new restaurant critic. Well you know what they say about opinions and _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ; everyone has one.
She has yet to commit a (local)crime and y'all all ready to lynch her up.
Bunch o' carpers
Oh here we go again! Not content to have hounded our last talented critic out of town, the local mob is now poised to set the fox loose again. I don't wish this provincial cabal on anyone.
Welcome to Dallas, Ms Brenner. You've got your work cut out for you!
Dallas: Get ready for a rare treat. A bright and vivid writer who knows her way around a dinner plate, Leslie will never fail to entertain you. She delights in ruffling feathers and challenging the status quo with her quick witted prose. She will fearlessly blast the mediocre just as she will champion the best among you. Count yourselves fortunate.
--A former LA Times colleague of Leslie's, Corie Brown
I am looking forward to Brenner joining the DMNews team. New is always interesting...
what happened to bill addison?
Bill Addison went back to Atlanta, where he had worked before, to join Atlanta Magazine. We in the Guide and GuideDaily sections who edited his work -- always a true pleasure -- miss him dearly. But we are looking forward to welcoming Leslie to the team!
So Leslie's off to Texas. What will be left of the Times' once-great Food Section, one page on the back of a supermarket ad? One more example of Sam Hell taking the paper to Zell!
I just read her review of Kent Rathburn's Blue Plate Kitchen, which I am going to for the first time tonight. Her comments might be spot on but her grammar is terrible. I expect more from "an accomplished food/restaurant critic, author and editor."
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