Daily Archives: January 12, 2009

Podcast: Underworked and Underpaid

Download our weekly economic podcast with Chris Keating, Derek Stubbs and Hans Eisenbeis here: Underworked and Underpaid: Bottoms Up Week 13 29 min., 31 sec.

Signature Dish:  The Weight of Food

by Charlotte Beal Recently, The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review said fad diets are out. The next day, TrendCentral.com said they’re in. (For the record, Iconoculture has documented a general trending toward consumer embrace of lifestyle overhauls rather than periodic “diets” in the old-school sense of the word.) The interplay of health, food and (let’s face it) vanity [...]

Best of 2008: Reality check at UnFancy Food Show

by Nina Elder WHAT’S HAPPENING The second-annual UnFancy Food Show — a celebration of handmade, decidedly unfussy food — was held at a dive bar in Brooklyn on June 29, 2008. Visitors could sample goods from nearly 20 of the area’s best “unfancy” producers. Treats included country pâté with wild ramps; blackberry ice cream; and direct-trade, [...]