The Pluralist | 2019
Food Systems: (Im)practical Interactions
Abstract
So many people learned about business here, their kids are now in business all over the City. You’re free here; everybody is doing their own thing at their own pace. Folks working here want to be successful. At work you go by the other guys’ rules, you’re free here for a few hours, like being out in the woods, you can come in the middle of the week and it’s private here and people don’t notice you, it’s therapeutic like being in an oasis. You meet so many people it really is the melting pot. For one day you are all equal, during the week most people are blue collar but here they are pampered, one day a week these working-class people are catered to and relax and take care of business, look at the way they stroll. (personal communication, 15 December 1990)