Via MediaNews, the Chicago Tribune’s restaurant critic writes about keeping his identity safeguarded so he can dine anonymously. He goes over the tricks: using credit cards with his dog’s name, making reservations on a phone without recognizable Caller ID, making sure the baby sitter can still reach you when you’re dining under an assumed name. Ruth Reichl, the former NY Times critic, gave a Salon interview a few years ago that goes into even more detail on what life is like for a high profile restaurant critic. “I change my credit cards every six weeks or so. But, you know, they fax the names of the credit cards around to each other.”