'I want to be disruptive': Mark Bittman sees profit-less restaurants as a win

The former New York Times recipe columnist is pitching investors the chain of his wildest dreams, with no specific menu: Community Kitchen, or non-profit restaurantsAt 73, with close-cropped silver hair and a propensity to toss off a nebbishy shrug, Mark Bittman isn't ready to settle into retirement. After more than a decade of writing a wildly popular New York Times recipe column, The Minimalist, as well as more than a dozen cookbooks, countless opinion pieces that tapped into his despair over our broken food system and his passion for food policy, and most recently, the 2021 book Animal, Vegetable, Junk, a sweeping account of the history of food, he finds himself yearning for something more."You write the same thing over again and nothing changes," Bittman said. "I kind of thought, you know, I'm not as enthusiastic about this kind of journalism as I was. I'd like to do something more concrete." Continue reading...