In the world of foodies and food writers, today's big news is that Frank Bruni is turning in his Amex card as the restaurant critic of the New York Times. Ruth Reichl, who had that job before becoming the editor of Gourmet magazine, is an active Twitterer and tweets:
ruthreichl Getting dozens of emails from people who think I know who's going to replace Bruni. I'm so out of it, I had no idea he was even leaving.
Bruni will move over to write for the NYT Magazine.
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