NY Times appoints Tejal Rao as CA food critic

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There are some posts on this in the “Food and Media News” board which are linked, below:

Eater.com: What the New York Times California Critic Means For West Coast Dining - The paper’s appointment of critic Tejal Rao should be a wake-up call for the state’s food media by Meghan McCarron Aug 10, 2018, 7:55pm EDT

excerpt: The LA Weekly’s new ownership decimated the paper’s staff, including Shalhoup and food editor Katherine Spiers. The Weekly’s open critic position, which was recently vacated by Besha Rodell, has been eliminated. Los Angeles Magazine has also seen its food section shrink, and since the departure of Patrick Kuh it has ceased to run restaurant reviews. With the recent death of Jonathan Gold, a critic whose work not only highlighted the city’s food but also helped define the vision of L…