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My Letter to Pete Wells
Pete Wells, the restaurant reviewer for The New York Times for the last twelve years, announced his retirement in the summer of 2024. He has been my favorite reviewer of the last two decades and I admired especially his final article, about how restaurants have changed since he began reviewing them. I wrote him a
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It All Turns On Affection
Wendell Berry and It All Turns On Affection We change the garden wall every season, and this one is a tribute to the writer and thinker Wendell Berry, with excerpts from his famous essay The Pleasures of Eating and his Jefferson Lecture, delivered in 2012. Related thoughts from Ursula Leguin, Krista Tippett, and E.M. Forster
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Every Project has an Emotional Rhythm
Why the Way up is down.
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Proposed minimum wage increase would have unintended consequences
The New Mexico State Legislature has sent to the governor a bill that would raise the minimum wage over coming years and progressively increase the tipped minimum for employees like waiters and bartenders to 25 percent of the full minimum wage. The goals are to reduce income inequality, restore the “value” of work and
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