Headlines of the Week (Or Whatever)

In Defense Of Ms. Hill: It’s finally time to stop letting folks from outside of our community tell us how to feel about Lauryn Hill

What I Learned After Taking a Homeless Mother Grocery Shopping

My boyfriend lives in a dumpster: When Jeff began his year-long social experiment, students wanted to know how it could possibly work. So did I.

Finally, the flying car may have landed: Slovakian company AeroMobil to unveil prototype of ‘world’s most advanced flying car’ in at Vienna’s Pioneers Festival

Headlines of the Week (Or Whatever)

This week, I am thinking about food.


Hipsters On Food Stamps

The Awful Reign of the Red Delicious: How the worst apple took over the United States, and continues to spread

The Land of Forgotten Cocktails: Postcards from New Orleans

Mario Batali Is Fucking Starving

Jesus said: Feed the poor.
They said: Sorry, Jesus!
We spent $40 million on hate and fear.

“I’m [expletive deleted] starving.”

— Celebrity chef Mario Batali, while discussing his 'Food Stamp' diet, where he and his family are eating on a 'food stamp' budget (an average of $1.48 per meal, or $31 per week) in protest of potential cuts to the federal nutrition assistance program.

Unlike most people on food stamps, Mario Batali has access to a large variety of foods and has both the equipment and education to make the best use of it. This is something we should think about the next time that we're auditing what poor people eat, or their grocery purchases. I mean, this guy prepares food for a living - with every kind of equipment known to man - and he still cannot manage to do this without feeling like he’s going hungry.