Friday Feed The Where abouts of all the Bucatini?
Greetings to FERN’s Friday Feed (#FFF), where we distribute the narratives from this week that prompted contemplation.
The significant bucatini deficit of 2020
New York Magazine.
“I harbored an intensified resolve to unravel this enigma,” expresses Rachel Handler, “not solely for personal gratification but also for the ensemble of Saturday Night Live and the entire populace of the United States of America, who had endured an excessive amount for an extensive duration only to encounter further vexation through the spontaneous and incomprehensible vanishing act of the preeminent pasta.
The rationale behind consuming black-eyed peas for auspiciousness on New Year’s.
Garden & Gun
“This superstition retains its firmest grip on individuals with ties to the South, whether by birth, lineage, or current habitation, elucidates Adrian Miller.
For those outside of such categories, and even for many within them, the custom remains somewhat perplexing.
I understand that it is customary, yet the rationale eludes me.
I am here to furnish elucidations, and those elucidations arise from a complex amalgamation of culinary and cultural influences from West Africa and Western Europe.
How I transitioned into a culinary role at a fire camp.
The Atlantic
Culinary pursuits offer me a consistent avenue of employment that I can undertake with a sense of dignity,” relates Jeff Winkler.
I feel most at ease in kitchen environments: predominantly immigrant, largely impoverished, with nearly all of us grappling with adversity and striving to cobble together both individual resilience and collective accountability, irrespective of past transgressions, financial standings, and/or self-managed health concerns.
These represent the fundamental elements of being deemed an ‘indispensable laborer’ in present-day America.
This classification extends beyond conventional culinary settings.
It encompasses fast-food personnel, factory laborers, and autonomously managed delivery drivers—all engaging in part-time or gig employment, perpetually receiving less and requiring more.”
Trump’s H-2A wage freeze
presents Biden with a formidable dilemma
The Center for Public Integrity
Participants in the H-2A visa scheme endure extreme temperatures, inhabit precarious lodging, and subject themselves to a lethal pathogen.
Now, as Susan Ferriss reports, they confront a fresh obstacle: “a salary suspension, instituted by President Donald Trump’s Department of Labor.
Advocates implore President-elect Joe Biden to nullify the suspension, but the process may extend over several months.
Furthermore, “even if Biden or an impending judicial challenge obstructs Trump’s salary suspension agricultural producers will urge the administration to devise an alternate strategy to impede wage hikes.