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Confessions of a food critic: Closing a chapter after 39 years

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Life as a food writer had not just been a bed of roses, it came with a few thorns too.

Life as a food writer had not just been a bed of roses, but it came with a few thorns too.

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SINGAPORE – By the time you read this, I will be gone.

That hackneyed line in many romance melodramas refers, in this case, to the end of my employment with The Straits Times as its restaurant critic. I have retired from the newspaper where I have worked for 31 years and served my last day on June 1.

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