Here’s some of our top picks for stories in culture:
Eater: Bacon Coffee: Seattle’s Best Jumps on the Bacon Train – Seattle’s Best, a subsidiary of Starbucks, is exploring one of the last bacon-free frontiers in food: thanks to a contest winner, a bacon coffee drink is being developed and will potentially appear in Seattle’s Best locations across the country…Continue Reading
The Atlantic: Our Low-Wage Recovery – How McJobs Have Replaced Middle Class Jobs – When we think about what the economy has lost since the Great Recession, we tend to consider it in terms of simple addition and subtraction. We said goodbye to more than eight million jobs in the downturn; we’ve added around four million back. It’s easy and dismal math…Continue Reading
Bloomberg: Poor In India Starve As Politicians Steal $14.5 Billion Of Food – Ram Kishen, 52, half-blind and half- starved, holds in his gnarled hands the reason for his hunger: a tattered card entitling him to subsidized rations that now serves as a symbol of India‘s biggest food heist…Continue Reading
Fast Company: How the Best Restaurant in the World Stays that Way – If you pay any attention to food news and restaurant raves it’s been hard to miss the buzz emanating from Copenhagen over the last several years. That’s because of chef René Redzepi and his eight-year-old restaurant, Noma, which has earned two Michelin stars, the title of Best Restaurant in the World for three years in a row and plenty of New York Times acclaim. Believe the hype….Continue Reading
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