Even as I prep for my adventure to the extravagant Aspen Food & Wine Classic this weekend, I’m still focused on the current recession and the depressing state of the economy. Job growth slowly inches up, home sales are slowly increasing, people might actually start eating out again.
Your neighbors are still struggling, though. Food banks across the nation continue to report increases in numbers of those in need, particularly from non-traditional families – those previously considered to be in the middle to upper-class arena. I read an article just the …

As the final harvests are reaped from the fields an interlude begins to transition us into the feasting season.  The lights dim and the ageless story continues – our love affair with food.
The season beckons celebratory feasting and comfort dining, and yesterday the New Yorker’s annual food issue hit newsstands, filling the likes of NY Times food critic, Frank Bruni, with the urge to wax poetically:
I never throw away the New Yorker’s annual food issue, even if it came out nine months earlier. There may be an article I still …