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...Alabama and as a delivery guy for a restaurant in New York City. His goal was not to survive on his income, which he quickly realized was nearly impossible even at the lowest standard of living, but to remain at each job for two full months, no matter how bad the back pain, how sickening the smell of raw meat or how crippling the fatigue. Thompson succeeds--mostly. He gets found out and fired from the chicken plant a week before his self-imposed deadline and hangs up his delivery bike after seven weeks of risking his life...
...union officials report 30% of their members are unemployed or "riding the bench." "In the previous 14 years, I had not been out of work for more than one week," says Pat O'Connor, 57, a Connecticut carpenter. With no work since July, O'Connor says, "It is a bad dream turning into a nightmare. Is construction dead? It's just horrible right now. No one expected this. It's a depression." He has a mortgage and is worried he will fall behind and lose his condo. "When I go to bed, I keep the TV on just...
...strips to cook venison. He looks at the young Spanish prodigy Andoni Luis Aduriz, who has come up with a limestone slurry with which to gel-coat his vegetables. At this level, you're paying for technique, not what some guy can pick off the trees. New York culinary bad boy David Chang said as much recently when calling out his West Coast rivals for "just serving figs on a plate." Chefs need to do something. A love of nature is great, but it doesn't get you seawater when you're in the desert. (See the top 10 food...
...Bizarre Ad in Recent Memory," blared the Huffington Post. "Demon Sheep Goes Viral," announced the Washington Post on a front-page Web headline. The tag #demonsheep quickly spiked near the top of Twitter's trending topics, and Rachel Maddow played the spot on her MSNBC show, calling it "so bad, no one wanted to believe it was real." Not wanting to be left out of the controversy, the third Republican candidate in the race to unseat Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer, Chuck DeVore, responded by launching a website - Demonsheep.org - that asked people to "pledge your efforts to stop these Jawa-like...
There's no bad faith at work; it's just that the New Naturalism requires strenuous applications of machine technology. It's dramatic in the way it presents natural food - for $35 - but also artificial. The only things that keeps it from being laughable or a rip-off are that the chef totally believes in it and that it celebrates a very real value: the value of fresh fish. It's easy to make fun of the New Naturalism, but at its heart is an almost Shinto-like reverence for nature. Tom Colicchio, who helped found the modern green-market...