Roger Ebert once wrote this about how he reviewed movies: “I've always tried to adopt a generic approach to the movies, judging each film in terms of its type

Roger Ebert once wrote this about how he reviewed movies: “I've always tried to adopt a generic approach to the movies, judging each film in terms of its type and the expectations we have for it.” This idea is what Bourdain was invoking when he called Waffle House better than French Laundry, since it’s otherwise patently absurd to compare the two. Maybe this is what you missed.