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...staffed by trained chefs who have worked in high-end restaurants, have been appearing on city streets throughout the country. "People in their 30s and late 20s are not caught up with trying to impress people by going to the most luxurious establishment and throwing money around," says Jerome Chang, 31, who dispenses $5 crème brûlée out of the Dessert Truck in New York City. "It's about getting really good ingredients made with care and not about getting our egos stroked by being treated like a king...
Besides filling a market for healthy fast food that's really good, chefs are taking the wheel because working in a traditional kitchen sucks. "All these fine-dining restaurants work their cooks to the bone and pay them very little money, and the owners get rich," says Chang, who started his truck with a friend who attends Columbia's School of Business. Compared with restaurants, trucks have a lot less overhead, don't require managing a staff and focus on lunch, freeing chefs from working late nights and weekends. "I was a chef instructor here in Seattle for a year...
...juniors recovering from the rush of recruiting season, it might seem hard to imagine quitting a coveted consulting job to work in a restaurant kitchen. But Joanne B. Chang ’91 did just that when she left McKinsey to pursue her dream of becoming a bakery chef over a decade ago. Chang, who now owns her own bakery, first entered the culinary world by writing letters to restaurant owners in Boston promising that she would “work hard and do whatever you want.†Chang told her unlikely story to nearly 30 female students...
...unlike his predecessor Roh Moo Hyun is unabashedly pro-America, says the agreement would increase trade. He also supports ongoing efforts to privatize the energy sector and railroads, which union members have vowed to fight. "We don't agree with the policies of the new government," says Lee Chang Geun, the international executive director of the Korea Confederation of Trade Unions. "It will be an all-out struggle...
...Near the middle of his arresting academic study of the craftsmen of the Qin (221-207 B.C.) and Han (206 B.C.-220 A.D.) dynasties, Barbieri-Low - an assistant professor of Chinese history at the University of California, Santa Barbara - describes the frenetic Eastern Market of the Han capital of Chang'an (present-day Xi'an). Established in 201 B.C. by Liu Bang, the first Han Emperor, this shopper's paradise was surfeited with stalls hawking everything from silk to cheap tableware. At a whopping 5.4 million sq. ft. (500,000 sq m), it covered more space, as Barbieri-Low points...