Food in the News/ by Shelley Lance, Blog Editor
Henry Alford’s article, “Would the City Shut You Down?” in yesterday’s New York Times dining section, details the writer’s experience of enduring a city health inspection of his apartment kitchen. Even though Alford had 27 hours to prepare for the inspection (unlike restaurants which get no warning), and even though he “scrubbed and scoured” for 10 hours and took out 7 garbage bags worth of opened and dubious foods from his kitchen, the health inspector still found quite a few violations. Though she graded him with a “C,” she informed him that if he were a real restaurant she would have taken “more dramatic action,” due to his too-warm refrigerator. The article is delightfully witty- laugh out loud funny in fact- especially if, like me, you work in a restaurant and wonder sometimes if customers realize that their own home kitchens would probably not pass muster if subjected to the type of frequent health department inspections that are a basic fact of life in the restaurant business.
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