Since Valentine's Day, I've been anxiously awaiting the results of the Cubano Challenge over at the Village Voice's personable food blog Eat for Victory.
But something odd is going on. A few days after this post apologizing for plumbling problems at EfV HQ, Lalli stopped posting on the 19th, over a week ago.
Emails sent to EfV's address and Nina's individual Village Voice address bounced back. I sure hope she's not a late victim of the purging that led me to mostly give up on the VV, which I'd been reading faithfully since I was 13 and you could only get it in Manhattan for $1.
Come back, Nina, I miss you!
UPDATE: Our worst fears have been confirmed. Eater reports that Lalli is out and some gal named Sarah DiGregorio is in. A quickie Google reveals that Sarah is a Brooklyn-based freelancer who's written for an even altier publication, The Brooklyn Rail, as well as for Time Out and food porno mag Gastronomica. She seems to have gone to Brown and to NYU J-School.
I'll give Sarah a fair chance, but only if she reports the results of the cubano-off. Otherwise, that leaves Robert Sietsema, Michael Musto and Status Ain't Hood as the only reasons to read the VV site (but not to pick up the paper, not even to wrap fish in).
Hey i just noticed Nina Lalli has magically reappeared with a new food blog.
http://lalliblog.tumblr.com/
Posted by: Thegreek | April 14, 2011 at 11:01 AM