There’s been a big brouhaha this week amongst the nation’s food critics. We’re up in arms, I tell ya.

It seems that a critic named Sabrina Mashburn appeared on the Fox show "Kitchen Nightmares," throwing her weight around, acting like a big shot, saying things to the restaurateur like, “Do you even want a review? Do you need it?”

She’s a critic for a group called Dan’s Papers out of the Hamptons. Here’s the back story and the actual review that resulted from her on-camera visit.

She broke about a zillion ethical rules:

1. At the behest of the restaurant, a family-run Irish pub, and the Fox Network, she agreed to blow her anonymity.
2. She accepted an invitation (did she get her meal for free? I don’t know) for a “grand reopening,” clearly too early for a real review.
3. When she didn’t get seated in a timely way, she got all uppity and threatened a bad review or no review.
4. She admitted that the camera crew essentially staged her hissy fit.
5. Then, after all this clearly unorthodox behavior on everybody’s parts (presence of a camera crew, grand-opening mayhem, etc.), she went ahead and wrote the review.

Many of the country’s food critics are reeling, saying she has wounded our collective credibility. Shame on you, Ms. Mashburn, and have a gander at the Association of Food Journalists’ guidelines for critics.

P.S.- There was one other egregious transgression. Read the review. What did the critic have as her cocktail of choice? Jaegermeister on the rocks. Ew, Sabrina.