A Quick Note Regarding Allen Salkin’s Return

by Foster Kamer

As first noticed by Awl resident latke expert Doree Shafrir, it is worth quickly mentioning that the byline of Allen Salkin-once appropriately dubbed the “Seymour Hersh of the Sunday Styles”-has returned to the pages of the New York Times in today’s Dining section.

It is his first appearance in the paper since he was let go in December. The article is about The Cooking Channel, which is trying to be a cooler spinoff of The Food Channel. The word “hipster” is not used once, and it is, in my estimation as a casual scholar of Salkin’s work, “pretty solid.” It also isn’t symbolic of anything, but it does give me faith that 2010 has been and could turn out to be a pretty decent year, as hope continues to resist the cosmic snuffer of the universe.

I’d like to dedicate the following jam to him.