So an editor swings by my desk to let me know that the food writers of the Boston Globe and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch have been engaging in a spirited war of words over the merits — or lack thereof — of the other city’s food while their hockey teams duke it out on the ice.
Maybe I could tease Toronto, he suggests, what with the NBA finals starting there Thursday.
Tease Toronto? Well, I did unwittingly insult South Boston in a restaurant story, and Los Angeles and New York are always fair game for Bay Area writers, so sure, this sort of assignment is in my wheelhouse.