The Everywhereist
everywhereist.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2011
Geraldine DeRuiter writes a travel and personal blog covering restaurants, trips, tech encounters, and her experience with a brain tumor.
What HN saysHN commenters link it for her scathing review of a Michelin-starred restaurant in Lecce and note she is a copywriter-turned-travel-blogger, not a food critic.
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- 1Bros., Lecce: We Eat at the Worst Michelin Starred Restaurant, Ever4 people · 60 points · first shared 2021 · 8 comments on HN
- 2Things I Didn't Know When I Started Dating An Entrepreneur2 people · 18 points · first shared 2012 · 2 comments on HN
- 3What Happened When I Tried Talking to Twitter Abusers2 people · 8 points · first shared 2018 · 1 comments on HN
- 4Trying Soylent didn’t go well1 people · 66 points · first shared 2017 · 89 comments on HN
- 5TSA drops, breaks laptop after opt-out1 people · 19 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 6Stop Telling Bloggers They Aren't Writers1 people · 3 points · first shared 2017 · 1 comments on HN
- 7Bullying, Sexism, and Panic Attacks on Planes1 people · 2 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 8Things I Learned from Having a Brain Tumor1 people · 1 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 9The seattle freeze making friendships better1 people · first shared 2012
- 1015 things you should know about seattle1 people · first shared 2012
- 11About1 people · first shared 2017
What HN people wrote when they linked it
unfocussed_mike · 2022-02-28
OK but I am not paying extra money for a meal where part of the experience is that some of the food is terrible value and some is amazing, or to eat at a place where (knowing a little of rollercoaster physics) it has actually been carefully planned that way to maximise the thrill and discomfort.
That would be like an ARFID theme park. [0]
Which now I think of it is a good description of this:
https://everywhereist.com/2021/12/bros-restaurant-lecce-we-eat-at-the-…
Honestly, some of the justifications for the poor value proposition and past poor experiences of "fine dining" really make me chuckle. Food shouldn't be an exam, an IQ test, or a show of sophistication or class. Putting up with being misled by people selling you sophistication but delivering you average food is silly, and yet it happens a lot.
[0] I have ARFID, pretty much totally ignorable now but hell when I was a child.
Oh and for the people who will get snippy and downvote me because I didn't give them a direct link to the wikipedia entry for the acronym they just aren't informed enough to have heard of before, fine, here's your link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avoidant/restrictive_food_intake_disorde…
davio · 2022-02-28
Reminds me of this dystopian Michelin star restaurant experience:
https://everywhereist.com/2021/12/bros-restaurant-lecce-we-eat-at-the-…
fredleblanc · 2017-07-18
But what if this was just… entertainment? Check out the about page of her blog — http://www.everywhereist.com/about/ — this isn't a foodie's journal cataloguing the world of all things edible, this is a copywriter that took up blogging while traveling. She found something to write about, and wrote about it. (In a style that was funny while not being cringe-inducing, which I find rare these days.)
Side note, though — awesome to hear that Soylent works for you. Because, as you said, this _is_ the story I've heard most of the time. I don't like in an area where I'd ever stumble into someone that even knows what Soylent is, so a flip side to these stories is always good to know.
rogerbinns · 2012-07-08
The Everywhereist (a wonderful blogger and Seattle resident) has some good postings. The social thing is named the "Seattle Freeze".
http://www.everywhereist.com/the-seattle-freeze-making-friendships-bet…
And a bonus http://www.everywhereist.com/15-things-you-should-know-about-seattle/