Buchanan was the longtime food critic at Phoenix Magazine, the publication's definitive voice of culinary taste and also the reason many folks subscribed to the mag. Two years ago, she ripped a new one for pricey (and now defunct!) restaurant Luc's, ending the article with the fab kicker, "Luc's sucks." It was a great read and I laughed out loud when I first read it.

Unfortunately, that also ended her longstanding writing gig, as the publishers weren't too happy that their critic actually, um, criticized an advertiser (El Pedregal was the home of Luc's, and had an ad in the issue following Buchanan's review).