Yes, I spent my morning darning a mitten while sitting next to a girl doing needlepoint, at the laundry mat. Somehow the most bourgeois of activities have become hip(ster). Well, we are brooklyn and that's how we roll.
But, really, do we roll this pretentious? In my heart I know we do. But, nonetheless, lets look at what is totally obnoxious about these people.
“Ten years ago all of these people hadn’t moved to Brooklyn yet,” she added, comparing Brooklyn today to Berkeley in the 1970s. "
Ahh, to be a pioneer.
From what I've gathered from Ruth Reichl, Berkeley in the 70's was about making recipes from Diet for a Small Planet edible and eating garbage to reduce human impact on the earth as much as it was about eating locally.
So what is the difference? One is using your trust fund to buy a warehouse and not working for a year while you reverse engineer a trade that people across the river are learning the traditional ways in French kitchens, one of the more self important behaviors of this city and the other is about the future of humans on this planet.
If you want to act like Martha Stewart, don't pretend that you are Harvey Milk. That's really all I'm asking.
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