From the Editors
Posted by estiator at 13 June, at 14 : 13 PM Print
What About June
For those of us here in the Northern Hemisphere, June marks the beginning of summer, but it’s so much more. Named for the Roman goddess Juno, the month of June has got lots of meaning for lots of people. Within its 30 days are 24-hour blocks dedicated to a wide range of themes, including World Milk Day (yes, for the whole world!), the Global Day of Parents, International Sex Workers’ Day, Telanga Formation Day (a state within India), World Bicycle Day, International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression, World Environment Day, World Food Safety Day (take note, my fellow foodservice friends!), World Brain Tumor Day, World Oceans Day, National Best Friend Day (note, National Best Friends Forever Day is later in the year), World Day Against Child Labor (Greek American sons and daughters excluded), World Blood Donor Day (you can spare a pint), World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, Autistic Pride Day, International Picnic Day (a favorite for ants), Father’s Day (go Dad!), World Sauntering Day (take it easy), World Refugee Day, Juneteenth (commemorating the emancipation of enslaved African Americans), World Music Day (aka I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing Day), International Yoga Day, the Summer Solstice (the longest day of the year and could also be called Here Comes The Sun Day), International Olympic Day (something to get torched about!), International Widow’s Day, National Statistics Day, and World Asteroid Day (no, it’s not a prediction for the end of times, just a day to say, “Hey, aren’t asteroids cool?”).
For Estiator readers, this June is about “The Food Event of the Season” (the Summer Fancy Food Show at New York’s Javits Center), as told by senior editor Constantine Kolitsas in this month’s cover story; the return of Peter Poulopoulos to our pages in his column, Chicago Area Restaurant News; a taste of spoon sweets from Leros (in our Greek language pages); and a visit to Estiatorio Bottarga in Thessaloniki (also in our Greek pages). For Managing for Success, Constantine Kolitsas relays some lessons from one of his great mentors, and in this month’s A Cut Above, we get a taste of some delicious beef cheeks (not to be confused with any cheekiness in the tone of this letter).
Enjoy the issue, and remember to have a glass of milk with a former Russian hooker at a picnic in the town of Godwal before you go on a bike ride with your dad and your best friend as you whistle a song.
Oh, and watch out for that stray asteroid!
The editorial and publishing staff
