I think I have a new favorite food writer, Gina Mallet. I'm pretty sure that @Earth_to_Table didn't intend to make me a fan of Mallet's when they tweeted "Is Gina Mallet calling our Slow Food dinner a mass suicide? Where is the love? where is the responsible journalism?" but make me a fan they did when they pointed me to her blog post "Drink the Koolaid (sic) with Carlo Petrini."

I disagree with Mallet, and agree with Petrini, when she disses Petrini for saying, "food in Britain is bad." I've eaten in Britain. Outside of Indian food, Cantonese food and the whole strawberry jam/clotted cream thing, Petrini's conclusion is indisputably correct.

But, other than that point, Mallet is dead on. In response to Slow Food Toronto's absurd belief that "access to good, clean, fair food is an irrevocable human right," Mallet invites the movement to "Start with Zimbabwe. I dare you."

Mallet further endeared herself to me when I discovered that she shares my distate for Alice Waters. Said Mallet, "Waters is the emblem of mean cuisine. She's a food snob." Hear, hear!

@Earth_to_Table asked, "where is the responsible journalism?" "On Gina Mallet's blog," say I.