Conversations Simmer at Restaurants’ Large Communal Tables
Sunday, June 16, 2013
Mary Altman and John Pinson, though each traveling alone on business, savored some conversation with their barbecue last week as they sat together at one of 4 Rivers Smokehouse’s large picnic tables in Winter Park, Fla. The two discovered they both live in Jacksonville, Fla., so they chatted about their lives there. “When you’re by yourself, it’s nice to meet somebody and, coincidentally, to meet somebody from your own hometown,” …
Friday, June 14, 2013
Boise, Idaho — A battle between grocers and potato growers has been silently hitting shoppers’ pocketbooks, according to a U.S. wholesaler accusing America’s spud farmers of driving up prices while spying on farmers with satellites and aircraft fly-overs to enforce strict limits on how many tubers they can grow. Associated Wholesale Grocers’ lawsuit against United Potato Growers of America and two dozen other …
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
All cookbooks sell fantasy. Julia Child sold the fantasy that we could all become accomplished French cooks, but she grounded it in rigorous preparation and exacting instructions, which, if you followed them to the letter, gave you a very good chance of approximating the Sunday lunch of a provincial French lady. And because …