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Dallas Morning News Announces New Dining Critic

Posted on January 21st, 2009 1:40pm by Nancy Nichols
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This just in:

The Dallas Morning News just announced that Leslie Brenner will become the new restaurant critic and dining editor. Here is the full press release:

Leslie Brenner Named Restaurant Critic and Dining Editor for

The Dallas Morning News 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.

Dishers, Leslie gives great blog. Welcome aboard, Leslie. Do you have freckles?

24 comments

  1. and she apparently looks a lot like this:

    http://www.nextbook.org/images/kleiman.lg.jpg

    @ 1:53 pm on January 21, 2009

  2. Look out…

    http://takebackthetimes.blogspot.com/2007/11/another-hatchet-job-from-lats-leslie.html

    @ 2:03 pm on January 21, 2009

  3. Freckles?

    Nancy — steady. . .

    Remember what happened the last time you went there.

    @ 2:03 pm on January 21, 2009

  4. So much for anon — yeah that photo makes her look like she could pass for David Letterman’s sister.

    @ 2:19 pm on January 21, 2009

  5. I wonder if she’ll get laid off before she gets here.

    @ 2:24 pm on January 21, 2009

  6. So the Dallas Morning News lays off its accomplished, experienced food writers and hires an accomplished, experienced food writer that was laid off by the LA Times? It’s like musical chairs, played to the third movement of Chopin’s Piano Sonata #2 in B-flat minor.

    @ 2:57 pm on January 21, 2009

  7. FYI, TG above is not Teresa Gubbins.

    @ 3:55 pm on January 21, 2009

  8. The last DMN restaurant critic was not laid off, DJ Vue. He left for greener pastures.

    @ 4:00 pm on January 21, 2009

  9. Thanks for the lovely update!!

    @ 4:09 pm on January 21, 2009

  10. As Addison was leaving, the DMN was axing actual experienced foodwriters who could have handled this job with grace and reading pleasure.
    FYI, a lot of people don’t know this, but a prominent food writer (not to be named here, but take your best guess) suffered an unfortunate sushi/tongue mishap during a prolonged stay in Japan and six months later was in Paris at the famous Societe de Lingua Institute getting a tongue transplant from a cloned Tennessee Fainting Goat. TFGs are said by science to have the tastebuds closest to those in a human — has something to do with the way they are raised on mainly mother’s milk and goat cheese. The only drawback to this transplant is that when a waiter sneaks up on the table, the diner faints and often falls face-first into the spinach salad. Plus, the diner with the goat tongue transplate periodically clears the palate by shotgunning a Coors Light and eating the can.
    Which reminds me, when’s the last time you saw a Belo or DMN exec dining in public at a place recommended in the paper? Do you get the feeling that they scatter when the lights in the room come on?

    @ 4:22 pm on January 21, 2009

  11. That’s “goat tongue transplant,” of course. I don’t know what a “transplate” is, but I bet every good dining critie has one.

    @ 4:24 pm on January 21, 2009

  12. I said “food writers,” not “restaurant critics.” I had in mind Dotty Griffith, Teresa Gubbins, Joyce Saenz Harris, et al.

    @ 4:33 pm on January 21, 2009

  13. apparently she’s got plenty of opinion anyway. I hope she comes in and reviews a wide variety of restaurants instead of just hitting up the same old lineup. I think it’s interesting to get somebody different from outside of Dallas in to do the job. I hope she continues where Bill left off.

    @ 4:51 pm on January 21, 2009

  14. Cah ah hah mah tun back?

    @ 5:24 pm on January 21, 2009

  15. TFG, we can retrofit you with the tongue of any one of a number of shamed former Dallas office-holders and bureaucrats — will a forked-tongue work OK for you?

    @ 5:35 pm on January 21, 2009

  16. Ok guys, but how many stars do we give the DMN for their choice? Was TakeBackTheTimes’ near fatal experience with Ms. Brenner simply an unfortunate bad oyster or did she serve up a series of indigestable meals? By the way, I grade on the three star system.

    @ 5:39 pm on January 21, 2009

  17. She doesn’t have freckles, but she has teeth.

    @ 8:46 pm on January 21, 2009

  18. Will no longer use initials TG-will use T Grn or T Green from now on-sorry to T Gubbins the writer and NN.

    @ 12:56 pm on January 22, 2009

  19. First up for review….Kent, Dean, Steven and Avner. Ah yes “The Boys Club”

    @ 10:31 am on January 23, 2009

  20. Sorry so much for Anon but the picture you linked too IS NOT Leslie Brenner. That is actually a picture of Evan Kleiman, who is the owner and executive chef of LA restaurant Angeli Caffe Caffe and has written several cookbooks one which she collaborated with Leslie Brennan on. For more proof click here to see another picture of Evan NOT of Leslie… still working on that. http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/gf/

    @ 5:41 pm on January 26, 2009

  21. Here is the photo I have found, according to Random House Publishing this is Leslie Brenner (keep in mind photo is from 2002)http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=3180

    @ 6:04 pm on January 26, 2009

  22. Nice work, MillPill.

    @ 7:55 pm on January 26, 2009

  23. Apparantly Leslie is a person who hates herself as much as she hates reviewing restaurants. She is bitter, makes it personal and is vicious in her delivery – when there is one. She pussy-foots around what can be important information to know and just goes for the throat on things that are a personal “pet peeve” or a personal dislike in food. I may not care for foie gras, but I’m not going to tell people “it sucks – this restaurant sucks for serving it”. Go, masses, go make your own decisions! Leslie is not as good as you or she think!!!! Go back under whatever rock you crawled out from under. Maybe go write some vicious retoric for President Obama…

    @ 12:59 am on March 14, 2009

  24. A chum encoraged me to check out this post, nice post, fanstatic read… keep up the cool work!

    @ 9:58 am on December 18, 2009