Asheville food writer Raskin hired as food critic at the Dallas Observer

Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

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Hanna Raskin, one of Asheville’s top food writers and critics, will soon join the Dallas Observer as its food critic. The paper is owned by the Village Voice. It’s a wonderful move for Hanna, whose work has obviously impressed. Now she’ll be writing about big city food and its chefs.

Here’s the big announcement at www.eater.com, which wants to try to stick it to the Dallas Observer by posting photos of Hanna:

Today the Dallas Observer announced that starting June 1st, Hanna Raskin will be taking over as food critic. Raskin was most recently the food editor at the Asheville alt-weekly, Mountain XPress, as well as Slashfood’s Southern food correspondent. She replaces Dave Faries who left to pursue the “Old World.”

Curiously, in the announcement blog post, they didn’t run her photo, with the likely intention for her to remain anonymous. Raskin confirmed this, telling the Dallas Morning News today that “The Observer… will have her visiting restaurants anonymously.” But… we found photos of her online, and to give the local restaurateurs a helping hand, here are some potentially anonymity-busting photos.

Congratulations, Hanna!