Alive and well in Hawaii

Several of you have contacted me off list to find out if I’m actually still alive.  Well, yes.  Well, yes and in Honolulu.  Well, yes, and in Honolulu and on…

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Things that caught my eye

Even at its outset, tipping engendered feelings of anxiety and resentment. In the mid-1800s, after leaving the Bell Inn of Gloucester, the Scottish writer Thomas Carlyle complained: “The dirty scrub…

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The Ethical Food Movement on Campus: Is it Workable?

Yesterday Karen Resta Bateman posted a long comment that dealt with the enthusiastic efforts of certain colleges to embrace ethical dining. Now Karen is no slouch when it comes to…

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