{"id":72261,"date":"2012-03-09T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2012\/03\/olive-garden-restaurant-review-goes-viral-charms-anthony-bourdain\/"},"modified":"2012-03-09T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T20:00:00","slug":"olive-garden-restaurant-review-goes-viral-charms-anthony-bourdain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2012\/03\/09\/olive-garden-restaurant-review-goes-viral-charms-anthony-bourdain\/","title":{"rendered":"Olive Garden Restaurant Review Goes Viral, Charms Anthony Bourdain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"7\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img2-3.timeinc.net\/people\/i\/2012\/news\/120319\/anthony-bourdain-300.jpg\" alt=\"Olive Garden Restaurant Review Goes Viral, Charms Anthony Bourdain | Anthony Bourdain\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div readability=\"9\">\n<p>Anthony Bourdain and Marilyn Hagerty (inset)<\/p>\n<p>Diane Bondareff\/AP. Inset: Courtesy Grand Forks Herald<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The review was so earnest that cynics thought it had to be a joke.<\/p>\n<p>Marilyn Hagerty&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grandforksherald.com\/event\/article\/id\/231419\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rave<\/a> of the new Olive Garden in Grand Forks, N.D., has gone viral, with the 85-year-old author of The EatBeat column in the <em>Herald<\/em> attracting a mixture of jaded disbelief and unlikely praise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Very much enjoying watching Internet sensation Marilyn Hagerty triumph over the snarkologists (myself included),&#8221; Anthony Bourdain told his <a href=\"%20https:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/NoReservations\/status\/177858631423893504\">Twitter followers.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Under the headline, &#8220;Long-awaited Olive Garden receives warm welcome,&#8221; Hagerty praised the $10.95 chicken Alfredo (&#8220;warm and comforting on a cold day&#8221;) as well as &#8220;the two long, warm breadsticks,&#8221; the neatly dressed waiters and the restaurant&#8217;s &#8220;welcoming entryway.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All in all, it is the largest and most beautiful restaurant now operating in Grand Forks,&#8221; she writes. &#8220;It attracts visitors from out of town as well as people who live here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As the review caught fire across the Internet, Hagerty \u2013 who has written the column for more than 30 years \u2013 could only wonder what the fuss was all about and express impatience for any mean-spirited detractors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My daughter tells me I should go on Facebook and read all this <em>crap,<\/em>&#8221; she tells <a href=\"%20http:\/\/blogs.villagevoice.com\/forkintheroad\/2012\/03\/olive_garden_review_marilyn_hegarty.php?page=2\"><em>The Village Voice.<\/em><\/a> &#8220;And I do not have time to let myself be bothered or read all that stuff. I have a Sunday column I&#8217;m doing now about a completely different subject. I don&#8217;t have time to sit here and twit over whether some self-styled food expert likes, or does not like, my column.&#8221;     <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.people.com\/~r\/people\/headlines\/~3\/1mXoLt9yLqo\/0,,20577321,00.html\" title=\"Olive Garden Restaurant Review Goes Viral, Charms Anthony Bourdain\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Olive Garden Restaurant Review Goes Viral, Charms Anthony Bourdain<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Anthony Bourdain and Marilyn Hagerty (inset) Diane Bondareff\/AP. Inset: Courtesy Grand Forks Herald The review was so earnest that cynics thought it had to be a joke. Marilyn Hagerty&#8217;s rave of the new Olive Garden in Grand Forks, N.D., has gone viral, with the 85-year-old author of The EatBeat column in the Herald attracting a mixture of jaded disbelief and unlikely praise. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Olive Garden Restaurant Review Goes Viral, Charms Anthony Bourdain - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2012\/03\/09\/olive-garden-restaurant-review-goes-viral-charms-anthony-bourdain\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Olive Garden Restaurant Review Goes Viral, Charms Anthony Bourdain - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Anthony Bourdain and Marilyn Hagerty (inset) Diane Bondareff\/AP. 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