New York Journal Sifts Sifton

[Pigging by Wilfrid:  October 20, 2011]

I can always find things to disagree about with my Mouthfuls colleague Marc  Shepherd, although I think we share similar views about where the New York dining scene is headed.  Where Marc is eminently reliable, however, is in his detailed assessments of the New York Times' restaurant critic -- in this case, the outgoing Sam Sifton:  "vacuous, bored and intellectually lazy."

Read the arguments -- and facts and figures -- which support that conclusion right here.