Luxury Travel & Lifestyle Trends

We used to go to culinary school. Now we want to make the cheese, not just watch the process on TV. Farms schools are the next big thing in foodie vacations, burgeoning from the current farm-to-table trend.

So suggested the New York Times in a recent article “Influence and Spending Power Now Lies with the Middle Class,” referring to the closing of upscale food magazine, Gourmet. It went on to imply that an interest in “food exploration” is dead, and although Gourmet is an iconic brand, it couldn’t make enough profit to stay in business. A business editor at the paper even suggested that everyone would resort to “eating Ketchup, mayonnaise from a jar and Velveeta cheese.”