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Smashed #38: Have food critics lost their way?

Or should chef Ben Shewry just shut the f**k up?

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Andy Lynes
Oct 02, 2024
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Chef Ben Shewry (Tourism Victoria from Australia, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons)

If anyone has benefitted from food media's attention in all its forms, it’s Australian chef Ben Shewry. As the owner of Attica, a restaurant that specialises in obscure indigenous Australian ingredients and that’s located in a small Melbourne suburb, Shewry has surely ne…

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