I found the article that Penelope Cocoran wrote in response to the readers inappropriate. It is one thing to justify the reasons for reviewing restaurants in such a manner and blantantly treating reader response's to her style as ignorant and more or less treating them (by repeating things 3 times.) as children, and stupid ones at that. I thing P.C. wrote this piece in response to the fact that next week is her last week and she wanted to go out on her own terms. However, her terms seem to involve treating the rest of her audience to her opinion of them, which unfortunately seems to be along the lines of the restaurants she has been eating at, substandard and lousy. I have worked at my fair share of restaurants in this city and the only thing I had learned about her is that she holds grudges and if she does not like the chef/owner then she in turn also does not like the restaurant regardless of whether or not the food is excellent. Etta's may be her go to, but she has a LONG standing grudge against a certain chef and reviews that follow are consistent with that. I don't know, I just have a real problem with authors that make it their job to begin to judge the people involved in the organization of the restaurant or ownership in this case, because whether or not the owner is a schmuck, which in this case I do not believe is, the food and service is what makes a restaurant and should be the determinant. I know that as human beings it is hard not to let feelings and drama enter into the workplace, but taking offense to genuine questions posted by less educated or knowledge seeking readers is just ridiculous. While, P I think you have made your opinion heard loud and clear and am glad that you will be saying ciao.