Good Food Jobs is a gastro-job search tool, designed to link people looking for meaningful food work with the businesses that need their energy, enthusiasm, and intellect. We post opportunities with farmers and food artisans, policy makers and purveyors, retailers and restaurateurs, economists, ecologists, and more.
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UPCOMING EVENT
Join us in person!
Calling all NYC cook-trepreneurs:
mingle with the best cooks in NYC, sample culinary fare, and learn how Mealku can help turn your passion for food into profit.
WHEN
11 December 2013
6:30 - 8:30 PM
WHERE
The Mealku Loft
122 Duane St #3c
NYC
Email us at with the subject line RSVP Mealku. We've only got a few spots left.
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- Michael, GFJ Fan
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- Cale, Job Poster
We are so pleased to be of service.
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We must admit: there are some weeks when we just can't think of anything substantial to share in our newsletter. Other times, the newsletter format seems far too short to express what we've learned in just seven days. Today we find ourselves in the latter category.
What a week.
This past Saturday we had the pleasure of attending a lecture/discussion by/honoring the famed/eloquent writer/farmer/activist Wendell Berry at Yale University. One quote that stuck out from the too-short hour was:
Limiting education to school is a mistake.
We couldn't agree more. We've always been big fans of learning. Not necessarily school (although, yes, call us teacher's pets, but we happen to love a lot of things about school, too), but LEARNING. Education. Curiosity. Making efforts to figure things out. To try. To fail. To improve.
Here are a list of things that we learned this week, whether intentional or not:
You are often a lot stronger than you think you are, and you can endure a lot more than you think you can.
We are amazed at human resilience and healing. Taylor took a brief break from GFJ last week to tend to her grandmother, who took a bad fall on the ice while visiting relatives in upstate New York and fractured her hip. She had emergency surgery and spent the next few days healing before she could be transported back to her home state of New Jersey. At almost 80 years of age, Oma confessed that this was the hardest thing that she had ever been through, and far more painful than she had ever imagined. But every day she gets better.
While we don't suggest fracturing your hip just to prove a point (and that reminds us: please be careful on the ice this winter! You can never be too cautious.), we do see this as a valuable lesson. We spend our lives trying to make everything more comfortable, but when push comes to shove, we pull through no matter how hard it is. We can heal. We can learn. We can endure a lot more than we ever thought was possible. And sometimes we actually come out stronger as a result.
We're sending all of our healing energy Oma's way, and we thank everyone for their patience last week while Taylor devoted her energy toward the task at hand. If you happen to have any pain that you are enduring this week - particularly in the form of frustrations with the job search - send them our way. We are always here to help you through it.
Lots of learning happens when you interact with people of different generations.
This past week brought many interactions with folks several years (ahem, even decades) our senior. While the ones that we met preferred a handwritten letter to email (most notably, Wendell Berry, who in order to be honored as Yale's CHUBB fellow had to be reached via US Postal Service) and a land line to a cell phone, they had so much wisdom to impart. We spend a large majority of our lives staring at small screens (which, when used as a tool, not a toy, can be hugely helpful) but nothing beats a good conversation. Sharing stories, learning from experiences, the satisfaction that comes from conversing with someone that has sharp wit - these are the things that make our lives richer and far more fruitful.
Look around you - if you are surrounded with only people of your own age, make an effort to make new friends in different age groups, both older and younger. The former have wisdom in experience, and the latter have power in imagination.
Expose yourself to new experiences.
Take a new route, go to a lecture, meet someone new. All of these are ways to get you out of the same routine, and the same mindset.
If you are in/near NYC this week, and looking for inspiration, come to this GFJ only event (details below) hosted by Mealku. It's a good way to meet other kindred spirits.
We hope this inspires you to learn a little bit this week. Because as long as we're learning, life is an endless adventure.
Cheers,
Taylor & Dorothy
Co-Founders, Good Food Jobs
Passion + Profit
a Cook & Earn Event
hosted by Mealku
If you are a chef or an aspiring chef, we'd like to invite you to come and see us in person tomorrow at our Passion & Profit event with NYC's Mealku. It's an opportunity to connect with us and others in the industry, and to see if Mealku can help you share your culinary talents with more hungry folks. Here's how it works: you email us to RSVP and the first 150 responses will be notified that their spot is reserved on the guest list.
*Note, we only have a few spots left, so email us ASAP.
Mealku is an NYC based meal delivery service that showcases the talents of local chefs, helps ensure that no leftovers go to waste, and pays their delivery people a living wage. If you're making lunch, why not share it? Find out more at mealku.com and view their latest openings on Good Food Jobs.
This event is only open to the GFJ audience, so it's an excellent way to meet your fellow food lovers. We hope to see you there!
the GASTRO.GNOMES BLOG
Susan Huff
Inventor / Owner
TheSoulfulSeed
Even though the United States government defines a small business as a company that employs up to five hundred people, we at GFJ fall on the opposite end of that spectrum (employee count: somewhere between two and five), and so do many of the folks that we wind up profiling on this blog. Susan is the type of person that exemplifies what it means to create a business based on an individual passion, a need to share that passion with others, and the conviction that doing so improves her own life and the lives of others. Read More
GOOD FOOD JOB HIGHLIGHTS
and over 1,000 other active jobs, too . . . see the full website for the latest.
CUSTOMER CARE SPECIALIST
Food52
New York, NY
PASSIONATE LOCAL COOKS
Mealku
New York
BUTCHER / CHEF / FARMER
Sawkill Farm
Red Hool, NY
see more good food jobs at goodfoodjobs.com
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