Top Chef : "Focus Group"

As a critic, I tend to cringe whenever one of my kind pops up in movies or on TV, because they’re inevitably cast as villains—bloodless, heartless vultures who feast lustily on the precious creativity of others and spit out career-killing bon mots . Think Anton Ego in Ratatouille , Jon Lovitz’s eponymous quipster in The Critic (“It stinks”), or even Simon Cowell on American Idol , who isn’t a critic per se, but plays the part on the show to a chorus of boos. So when Toby Young, a British food critic and author of the caustic memoir How ... (link)