الخميس، 23 فبراير 2017

"The New Yorker" said : How a Texas Teen-Ager Became New York City’s Premier Truffle Dealer

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"The kinds of products I sell fly into Newark like first-class passengers, the 1 percent of the food world," Purkayastha writes. He encountered his first truffle at fourteen, when, while staying with wealthy friends, he ordered truffle ravioli with foie-gras sauce at an upscale Italian restaurant. It was an early fascination with gemstones, in fact, that set Purkayastha on his path to truffles. He has a boy's soft face but already a half decade's worth of experience hustling this decadent product to New York's food élite. "While other kids focused on football or getting laid, for me it was truffles all the way," he writes.


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Robin Hood Donors Volunteer for Annual HOPE Count of New York City's Homeless Population – SAT Press Releases


Robin Hood Donors Volunteer for Annual HOPE Count of New York City's Homeless Population – SAT Press Releases
The Chauncey F. Lufkin III Foundation was privileged to offer a helping hand as Robin Hood volunteers for the annual Homeless Outreach Population Estimate (HOPE). Submit the press releaseNEW YORK, NY, February 10, 2017 /24-7PressRelease/ — On Monday, February 6, 2016, The Robin Hood Foundation pulled together its community of donors to support fellow New Yorkers. Also on their team were Beatriz De La Torre, Robin Hood's Managing Director, Housing Advisory Board and fellow Robin Hood donors Russell Sternlicht and Yeshi Kassa. Foundation Director, Cara Familet and her husband, Jeff Stevens, participated on behalf of The Chauncey F. Lufkin III Foundation. HOPE is an annual, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development mandated survey of the number of individuals living in New York City's public spaces.

Few poor or minority patients in New York City's academic hospitals
In Boston, uninsured and Medicaid patients were just as likely to be treated at academic medical centers as at other hospitals. "Academic medical centers should be held to higher levels of ethical standards in providing care for low income and minority patients."When there are disparities in patients' access to care, academic medical centers may not offer the best possible education to new doctors, Johnson added. At the same time, 22 percent of patients were insured by Medicaid at academic hospitals, compared with 42 percent at other hospitals in the city. Uninsured patients are five times less likely to get care at academic hospitals. At one-third of academic hospitals, less than 10 percent of patients had Medicaid or were uninsured.


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