Gape gaining 4 as the shinzo abe won a landslide victory in the upper house elections held yesterday. This is likely to make it easier to push through his agenda. The nikkei up by 4 . The shanghai composite was higher as well. In the early trading on the european markets, innings are mostly in the green there as well. The dax is up by 1 1 3. The ftse up by 3 4 of a percent. We should take a look at crude oil prices. Energy giving back some ground. In fact, wti down below 45 at 44. 84. Still no clarity perhaps on what will happen with the italian banks. That may be why. Thats the outlier. This week is full of Economic Data. Ernest season gets may wholesale trade followed by june import prices and the fed book on also on thursday, we dont normally Pay Attention to this. But the bank of englands policy meeting is going to happen. On friday, june retail sales, cpi, Industrial Production and the first look at Consumer Sentiment for july. In earnings central, alcoa reports earnings after the
And we were trying to help with the stimulus bill. I remember standing on the floor, just looking at us losing tens of thousands of jobs a month and we wound up losing 8 million jobs. California was a mass. The real estate situation hit us. We were struggling. Families were distraught and im running for reelection in fee arena is blaming everything on me, even when it rains and shes blaming everything on me and its tight. He says hes have you seen her hair and he said it is so yesterday. And she starts laughing. Now the truth is about my hair, i have many bad hair days, but i thought that moment, everybody does. What is she doing . Its kind of an insult to everybody except if you are wealthy enough to have and are followed around every day and most of us do not. She got into trouble with that and i think in the end, people said we are in a hard time and i think they understood with you there, including up against the iraq war there are so many times that you were alone or maybe had a f
I did want to mention a couple of new titles, glutenfree, vegancomfort food. And bridgets diet book. Wild and food cook book. You see a bit of the swath we are cutting in the cooking world. Sorry . [inaudible] romance fiction. Still in paper back. Its a great pleasure for me to introduce clark work which is the master of ceremonies for these events and thank you for coming. Thank you all. One of the reasons we wanted to gather to be the and after 5 00 is because you we wanted you to have all the sunlight that you can get. I was at a book party on the upper east side, a book that Marian Burros had written from the New York Times. Lets walk a little bit and we were on 96th, in new york or something. Before we knew it we had gotten all the way to Washington Square and convinced me to help her food up the nutrition department. 20 years later there are food studies all over the country and the program here is thriving. Its extraordinary that we are now helping to educate already incredibly
Good afternoon. Im marvin taylor, the director of the library. It is a pleasure for me to welcome you here to our next critical topic in foods. Food studies 20 years. Is the Movement Really changing food . Im delighted that you all joined us here. We have one of the largest collections of cooks in the country. We have over 60,000 at this point. The collection has largely been built on donations and i would like to thank meryl evans who is here who gave up some of her collection. We continue to build that collection. People always ask how the collection is accessible. We have about half of the books cataloged. You can check there. We also have archival materials. You can find it in our website. And important papers there. Groups from the 70s and 80s. We welcome people, it at the affiliated with nyu to make an appointment. It is here to be a resource for everybody interested in food. Wanted to mention a couple of titles that have come in. Who would come up with the vegan, glutenfree the
Started in this program and give us a moment or two to be the at milan. Ood guide sure. I was at the first meeting that marion told you to convene about starting this department. I was someone sitting around a table with a bunch of smart people in the food world. There wasnt really a food world back then. Just people working with food. Thinking about what a program could be was amazing. I thought i have to sign up. And started the following year and applied as a phd candidate. The thing that was so exciting about that at the time was i was the food geek would be competing on television with a junior chefs show and i was always interested in food but not something that a middleclass jewish kid could do with this his head held high. I dont regret not being a chef. The idea that there would be an Academic Program that would look at food which was more akin to how i personally integrate the idea of food into my life which is that it is a cultural phenomenon, their experts and artists and i