Italiano
Gastronomic narcissism
There are those – be they a critic or fan – who impose their own personal preferences in a thinly disguised attempt to determine the choices of others only because they have the presumption of being “somebody”. I am fortunate and privileged to be a friend of and known well Umberto Contarello, the screenwriter of several, very important films, including The Great Beauty which won the Oscar for Best Foreign film. Speaking to him about the role of a film critic and comparing it to that of a wine and food critic, we found many similarities. “The best critics in my field,” he told me, “are those who do not impose their personal tastes to the meaning of the work. They...
