Thursday Night Manhattan Friday the World

This Thursday night the Diner Journal crew will be hosting a launch party for the Fall issue. We will celebrate entering our third year with some readings by authors and the editorial staff varying in topic from coming out and eating goat to trying to find morels in the forests of Pennsylvania. And of course we will be paired accordingly with cheese and well... booze. We hope you all can join us at McNally Jackson Booksellers on Prince Street between Mulberry and Lafayette at 7pm for some seasonable, if not reasonable, fun.

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What Does It All Mean: Homogeny on the Homefront

Last week at Diner a poll was handed out. It asked you to list in order of importance when making food choices organic, cost, local, employee sustainability, and taste. Pictured are the results. Problems with this social experiment lie in the phrasing of the question or rather that there was none just a piece of paper with words and boxes. Also the way we were meant to score them was unclear. Is five the most important or is one? Are we rating as a consumer or an employee of this restaurant? Mixed emotions aside what does it mean when taste comes before humanity and organic has completely lost all its meaning? Or imagine the great power of taste... Or wonder how differently the data might be if you asked people who work the kitchens at New York City Public Schools. Or even Giando's On the Water... What becomes obvious is that these five seemingly simple concepts have an avalanche of offerings and implications.

Here We Are:
1. Taste
2. Locally Produced
3. Employee Sustainability
4. Organic
5. Cost

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