When I was growing up, there were a couple of ways to gauge whether restaurants were worth a visit.
One was the AAA Guide, published for different regions of the U.S. and Canada. New York had the user-generated Zagat guide. France had the Guide Michelin, and the Gault Millau guides were useful and witty.
In the 1990s, the James Beard Awards came along, …
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