Ruth Reichl did a Q&A in this Sunday’s NYT Magazine and talked briefly about the loss of her magazine. Reichl revealed that Si Newhouse informed her “not on email” (snap!) about Gourmet‘s “stunning” demise, and also discussed why she feels The New Yorker will remain “untouched” forever.

Mere hours after Condé Nast announced that the venerable Gourmet was among the four titles to be shut down in the wake of their McKinsey evaluation, Curbed Media’s Eater blog, which recently went national, was already picking at the bones. Their cheeky proposal after the jump.

Yesterday Eater, Lockhart Steele‘s Curbed Media food blog, expanded its reach with the launch of a national site, Eater National. And, in order to make coast-to-coast domination a little easier, the site is paying anybody with a food blog $25 to hang it up and post an Eater ad as their final piece of content.

Welcome to a fun new feature at Mediaite called “Who Said It?” where we find fun, funny and semi-outlandish stuff in the media and make you guess who made that claim. We’ll give you a few clues, and then reveal the identity of the speaker. When in doubt, pick Glenn Beck.

So: Who called Bill Clinton a “misogynistic sociopath?” We’ll give you a hint: It wasn’t Glenn Beck.

Yesterday, Sam Sifton was named successor to Frank Bruni as New York Times food critic. Despite laments at Bruni’s departure, devoted foodies may welcome the choice: where Bruni is an eater, Sifton is a chef: the former writes in Born Round of inhaling cold sesame noodles on his futon, while his successor will teach you how to make them.