My favorite street economists explore the curious parallels between the rising price of subway fares and pizza slices in NYC.

Some other examples of their field work:

• Vend diagram – NYC street vendors affected by the recession
• Checkmate – “America’s most valuable resource…is poor people. Poor people with checks.”
• Bodega – Quarter water and the yellow food group
• Ghetto Big Mac – Remixing the dollar menu

Highlights of this fall – visiting our nephew in Valencia, habaneres and “burnt rum” at a neighborhood festival, Rachmaninov and Dvorak at the Palau de la Música, and an expat Thanksgiving with new friends. Life is good.

Thanks to Raquel and Gerardo for a delightful introduction to the Swiss dining experience called raclette. How fun to live in Barcelona and learn about Swiss traditions from Urugayan friends. To bring things full circle we grilled up some txistorra sausages (which are technically Basque I guess) to accompany our cheese-drenched potatoes and veggies.

I just love interactive meals. Assembling a fajita, boiling up some shabu shabu, pregaming on karaoke night with some Korean barbecue…which are your favorite interactive meals? Or are you of the “don’t make me work, just give me the food” camp?