I’m grateful to AG for this piece , in which he defends the idea of eating in, after Josh Ozersky criticized Bon Appétit for being a “repository for recipes,” and “for people who eat in.” AG smartly points out some of the differences between writing about restaurants and writing about cooking, and how his blog, as it’s focused more and more on cooking, has become friendlier and elicited more constructive and polite comments. The restaurant crowd in New York may think that we avid home cooks are lame, but the cooks I know wouldn’t trade their abilities for anything.