In the first feature for our Q1 Insights Series, fashion critic Eugene Rabkin takes a similar approach to an iconic New Yorker article by late chef Anthony Bourdain. The 1999 essay “Don’t Eat Before Reading This” painted a picture of what it’s really like being a chef, to those who rarely get a glimpse behind the scenes. As our own industry has become increasingly global, saturated, and polarized, those observing it think they fully understand what the industry has become. But they rarely do. |
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