What Does It Mean To Go Hungry?
Interesting discussion of difference between hunger in US and poorer nationsl
The Latest Entrepreneurial Fantasy Is Selling Cupcakes
Smart business piece on setting up small food businesses, via the lens of cupcakeries. My favorite part is the math—$3 cupcakes probably cost about $2.45 to make, as per this breakdown:
For each cupcake she sells, Ms. Lovely figures she spends 60 cents on ingredients, 57 cents on mortgage payments and utilities, 48 cents on labor, 18 cents on packaging and merchant fees, 16 cents on loan repayment, 24 cents for marketing, 18 cents for miscellaneous expenses and 4 cents for insurance. That totals $2.45, leaving a potential profit of 55 cents on each $3 cupcake.
Urbanites Explore the Primal Lure of Hunting -
Locavores and Ted Nugent: together at last. Someone, somewhere (maybe me, maybe not) needs to write an essay linking Ted Nugent’s Kill It And Grill It with The Omnivore’s Dilemma.
Park Slope eateries cheat their workers...
Good example of why spot-inspection and enforcement of labor law is important—and how a business is in a socially conscious environment will still behave like a business first, conscience last.
