Thursday, August 11, 2011

How To Open A Pandora Box


N
owadays there seems to be numerous number of food bloggers on the Net posting on other people’s cooked food with their running commentary and their water-marked snapshots. We view it with askance and turn a blind eye to them because it is probably excusable as you are merely in a virtual unreal world of your own making trying to make yourself heard. However when you are in a real world you are dealing with real people with real feelings and sentiments and attachments. Let me now relate to you. There was this wannabe food writer who mind you writes for a living and was trying freaking hard    to impress his new writing prowess and skill. He unfortunately took on a restaurant, which was virtually an old institution in Hobart an establishment that is so inextricably interwoven with the Community's  deep roots and connections that unexpectedly he ended up incurring a public wrath a furore so to speak for what he wrote. Quite rightly he should expect the unforseen outcry and backlash. What is more  he should bear the  consequence that followed for ridiculing and deriding a long standing iconic symbol to which a large number of Hobartian customers identify and attach their sentiments and loyalty. ....










The Public Reaction









As for Dominic the more controversial his food is the more he adds new customers to his ever expanding market. I think he loves every minute of it.