The Times food section today features an article about broilers. It includes this sentence: "Our mothers pressed them into service for steaks and chops (which I must admit my mother ruined by cooking them until they were gray and dry)."
If the Times reporter has a complaint about his mother's cooking, let him address it to her in person (if she is alive). Or take it up in psychotherapy. Instead, Times readers are hauled along into the middle of this intra-family conflict, in which the mother isn't given a chance to respond to the accusation. She might have replied that the Times reporter ought to be grateful that she fed him at all, given the way he was to end up publicly griping about her cooking before an audience of hundreds of thousands of Times readers.
Times reporters who use the paper's columns (and the time of readers) to complain about family members without allowing the family members a chance to respond are a recurrent problem. For an earlier example, see here.
Some editor could have made the copy conform to the Ten Commandments simply by deleting the parenthetical clause,. That editing move would have made the editor's mother proud.