On Aug. 29, workers in 50 cities across the country, including Los Angeles, demonstrated outside restaurants, demanding union representation and $15 an hour in pay.
It sounds very much like what occurred in Nazi Germany, when Jew catchers hunted down Jews in streets and restaurants, demanding identification papers and arresting people who could not provide them.
The food and the restaurant demand your attention from start to finish.
The night before, in the ship's "New York-style" pizza restaurant, demand had been so high that Dearie had to redeploy cooks from elsewhere on the ship.
To meet the restaurant demand, traditional lime-stick trapping had been augmented by large-scale netting operations, and the Cypriot government, which was trying to clean up its act and win membership in the European Union, cracked down hard on the netters.
The restaurant demanded stamina, and an appetite for the authentic and the obscure.
One of my favorite movies, "L.A. Story," provides a pretty good example of fiscal nudity in action: A trendy restaurant demands the economic data on each guest.
"This style of restaurant demands that you almost live in it," he said, explaining why he built his bungalow in the first place.
He's still seething over his breakup with the owner of Aquavit, who, when Samuelsson left the restaurant, demanded a percentage of the profits of everything the chef put his name to thereafter because Aquavit had made him famous.
