{"id":368,"date":"2006-07-21T09:50:27","date_gmt":"2006-07-21T16:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=368"},"modified":"2006-07-21T10:25:34","modified_gmt":"2006-07-21T17:25:34","slug":"how-to-eat-and-write-at-the-same-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/21\/how-to-eat-and-write-at-the-same-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Eat Write"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m writing my first restaurant review. While I have written lots and lots about food &#8211; especially Asian food and cake &#8211; I haven&#8217;t produced a professional review before. I&#8217;m confident I&#8217;m up to the task, but I am not too proud to look for help.<\/p>\n<p>First, I asked my friend Knox, a critical diner who feeds me all the time, to join me at dinner. He was the perfect companion, not just because it&#8217;s been eons since we&#8217;ve gone out together, but because he said things like, &#8220;This dish is too many different temperatures.&#8221; And he helped me gain perspective on the price, neccessary because I don&#8217;t eat expensive so much. I&#8217;m more about the &#8220;authentic&#8221; ethnic place than I am about the fancy.<\/p>\n<p>I also looked for guidelines on the Internet for how, exactly, to prepare a review. I found two helpful things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.millikin.edu\/mr\/fooddrink\/howto.html\">How to write a restaurant review<\/a><br \/>\nThis is a handy checklist of things to take note of while you&#8217;re in the restaurant. It&#8217;s also quite useful when your server comes round to find out if you have questions. Even if I didn&#8217;t have questions myself, I found that there was something on the list I should have asked but didn&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/metromix.chicagotribune.com\/dining\/top10\/mmx-030523-diningspecialsphilstips,0,3614051.story?coll=mmx-dining_top10_heds\">Eat like a pro<\/a><br \/>\nThis article contains good advice for everyone who&#8217;s eating out, but it absolutely applies to novice reviewers. I did okay, but I caved on the fancy cocktails because I could not resist the idea of jalepeno infused vodka in my lemonade. It was a hot night and that sounded Just So Refreshing. Next time, I&#8217;ll do better. Here&#8217;s hoping there <em>is <\/em>a next time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nope, I&#8217;m not going to tell you where we ate just yet. But I will link to the review once it goes up.<\/p>\n<p>Also, in related news, I recieved a contract today to write travel articles for pay. If I had a day job, I wouldn&#8217;t quit it, but I am excited to be picking up more of this kind of work. Thanks for all your encouragement.<br \/>\n[tags]restaurant, fine dining, writing, reviews, big foofy cocktails, travel writing[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m writing my first restaurant review. While I have written lots and lots about food &#8211; especially Asian food and cake &#8211; I haven&#8217;t produced a professional review before. I&#8217;m confident I&#8217;m up to the task, but I am not too proud to look for help. First, I asked my friend Knox, a critical diner &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Eat Write\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/21\/how-to-eat-and-write-at-the-same-time\/#more-368\" aria-label=\"Read more about Eat Write\"><br \/>&#8230;read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-are-you-gonna-eat-that","category-working","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}