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Critics claim unemployment benefits are keeping people out of the restaurant workforce. But workers and labor organizers say that the reality is more complex, and that food service workers haven't been paid a living wage.
At home upstate with Ruth Reichl
At home upstate with Ruth Reichl
The famous food writer shares her Hudson Valley life, including where she eats, what she s working on, and driving the Taconic
Rose Palazzolo
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Ruth Reichl, the former editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine, lives full time at her Spencertown home in Columbia County.Ruth Reichl
In 2009, after Gourmet magazine was shuttered, Ruth Reichl moved full-time to Spencertown in Columbia County, to her sun-drenched home on a hill that she and her husband built in 2002.
Reichl the former food editor at The Los Angeles Times, restaurant critic of The New York Times, six-time James Beard winning author, best-selling memoirist and, for a decade, the editor of Gourmet magazine decided it was time to make a big change.
Small restaurant jobs not protected under California s Right to Recall law
By Tom Vacar and Caroline Hart
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Small restaurant jobs not protected under California s Right to Recall law
Labor organizers tell KTVU that many restaurant workers are not being called back in order of seniority, or sometimes at all, despite a new law protecting other similar jobs.
San Francisco - Despite a new labor law passed in California last month that requires employers in certain service industries to call back laid-off workers in order of seniority, many restaurant workers aren t getting their jobs back. Small restaurants, which make up a large portion of food employers in the Bay Area, are not included in the law.