craftsmanship, consumerism, virtue, privilege, and quality

I'm at a loss for understanding who the market for this is.

ex-gf and I would hate-read this blog every weekend: http://localmilkblog.com/recipes

phoo-eeee

that food looks ok and.. *reads prose* ... oh jesus kill me

when a business uses the word "provisions" in its name you know it is going for this vibe

ditto "dry goods"

"comestibles"

Even "Est."

"_____, proprietors."

"Provender"

didn't know where else to put this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/Screen%20Shot%202016-12-15%20at%2010.46.01%20AM_zps8digqy9j.png

If they send you one once a month you could put it here:

A Box of __________ Shipped to Your House Each Month

ahh thanks!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cz6e1oeXcAgI3yg.jpg

I was sure that was a dayo image for a second

bahahahaha what is he wearing

just some random shades of blue and a hat

his hands aren't quite in the right position for the harvesting of nut milk

laughed out loud in the at&t store ^

http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/03/world/europe/italian-inmates-sip-smell-and-taste-their-way-to-rehabilitation.html

Gianvito Rizzo, 53, is the chief executive officer at the Feudi di Guagnano, a local vintner that provides wine for the classes, like the Negroamaro. He is also the creator of the sommelier classes at the prison.

Mr. Rizzo has proposed that inmates start working on his nearly 75 acres of vines in the coming year; under certain circumstances, some inmates in Italy are allowed to work outside prisons.

“I see wine in a democratic way,” Mr. Rizzo said as he walked through his vineyard recently. “The countryside is the opposite to a cell. You are free. You smell nature, and learn to care for it. I think it’d be good also for inmates to try it out.”

Getting cheap prison labor to work at your agribusiness, reframed as the milk of human kindness. I'm sure the inmates all sit down to a huge home cooked Italian meal every afternoon, just before they take their siesta.

"libations"

"coffee service"

global elite needs well trained servants

You are free.

hm

might as well put these here:

thrillist writer argues that the current wave of mason jar restaurants (sorry) are doomed. rising labor costs, absurd imitation and competition:

https://www.thrillist.com/eat/nation/american-restaurant-industry-bubble-burst

(yeah idk maybe)

fast casual nu-cafeteria style places are pioneering a new job role: some chatty motherfucker to bother you because you can't just be patient when you see a line snaking out the fucking door

http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/03/dining/restaurant-employees-fast-casual.html?_r=0

is there anything, like any single institution or concept or sphere of activity, that isn't showing signs of rot and collapse at this point?

spurs back five son

i think you hit submit before finishing that haiku

frankly i wanted the sentence committed to print and timestamped before the inevitable entropy set in there too

i read all three parts of that thrillist epic the other day and it was kinda interesting but it described so many boom/bust business scenarios of the past. this country is just a boom/bust kinda country. something takes off, others follow, and then oversaturation, and then the inevitable. there is only so much money that people can spend in pittsburgh on gourmet tacos.

the crazy reminder in that whole thing was that even really successful restaurants make very little money in comparison to other businesses. the margins are demented and the fact that people pour millions into places that are open for 2 or 3 years...i don't know how people do it.

the casual/take-out counter thing of the future that they talk about makes a lot of sense too. high volume. you can actually make a decent living doing it. as anyone who owns a busy lunch counter or diner will tell you. and you can still make good food. so much less stress. why did all these people decide that they had to build empires? ego demons.

restaurant business is always on the verge of a bust. I thought that was what they taught you one like the 1st day of restaurant school. "look to your left, look to your right. two of you will be out of business next year." but glad that guy got a shitload of words out of it.

kicking it off with a story about how the brave, inventive, caring entrepreneur looks at all his employees and sees nothing but negative equity - that's some classy, inventive genius right there. maybe the next time this unique, compassionate, inquisitive "guy who sells food other people make" will invent a kind of high velocity waterproof pizza, and he'll never have to work again?

the whole article is just "paying workers costs money". its like a trend piece based on some dude's friend of a friend who doesn't want to admit its his own fault he failed.

this is taking authenticity to new heights. made out of authentic Japanese afros!

TOKYO FRO
Tasty curls of crispy organic potatoes (with or without homegrown vegetable-fed) drizzled with a Japanese tomato sauce. Hip-hop is the most popular music of Japanese youth and has made the afro Tokyo's most popular hairstyle; to have Japanese hair fluffed into an afro costs over a thousand dollars at a trendy hair salon. The Tokyo Fro is made out of Japanese afros prepared in a way that is nutritious and delicious. Sustainability Fact: Five Trillion tons of protein-rich human hair are swept up off salon floors go to waste each year.
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http://www.miyassushi.com/menu

does this go on that appropriation thread?...

JAPAFRICAN QUEEN
Eggplant, okra, goat cheese, apricots, avocado, pickled radish, chives, and Ethiopian berbere spice mix. 5 pieces
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they call their desserts "happy endings". i don't know what thread that goes on.

wait do you eat hair often

A nation of people with pica and trichophagia

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/17/world/europe/france-small-farming-organic.html

If I had started a family or settled down with a partner sans kids, I'd totally be down for something like that, preferably on the coast.

this is a pretty great look at that: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0240149/

just gonna not click on that but assume its that russell crowe movie where he plays hugh grant playing richard harris

that reminds me of this movie. wish i had it on dvd. so good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOVgsOXJg_I

darragh it's a french movie from about 10 years ago about a parisian who tries her hand at farming. it's v good despite the premise!

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/us/repair-cafe.html

If you’ve ever despaired of getting your vacuum cleaner fixed or thought that your broken lamp was a lost cause, there’s hope. A worldwide movement is trying to reform our throwaway approach to possessions.

The movement’s foundation is the Repair Cafe, a local meeting place that brings together people with broken items and repair coaches, or volunteers, with the expertise to fix them.

There used to be vacuum and general appliance repair and rebuild shops in my neighborhood, they closed. But I'm sure volunteers will be as good.

I've been to these repair cafes, and things do get fixed. Almost took my portable CD player in, thinking it probably had a bad belt, but when I tried it in anticipation of opening it up to verify a bad belt I found that it worked. Maybe it was just a bad power connection when it stopped working a couple years ago.

my friends have a bread maker machine and opened it up to replace a belt over the weekend