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The Work of the Golden Corral November 24, 2022
I was 16 when I began college as well as started working. At the time, I had no support from my parents, and thus, no choice in either decision: I needed to attend the state university in Chapel Hill, because the tuition was cheap, and earn money for...
EXCERPT: Inside Batali/Bastianach Restaurant Empire November 12, 2021
Kim Reed was helping homebound elderly patients as a social worker in the early 2000s when she picked up a part-time hostess job at Babbo, the Greenwich Village restaurant at the center of what was Mario Batali’s restaurant empire. She created the ni...
Restaurant Menus and the Art of Persuasion February 21, 2019
WHEN I LEFT ACADEMIA for the so-called “real world,” the first job I landed was at a restaurant consulting agency. Naïvely, I thought I knew a thing or two about food. Hadn't all those years studying orgiastic turtle feasting rituals meant anything? ...
