So this article by Andrea Reusing (chef at Lantern) is actually from April of this year but I just followed a link to it this week so it's new to me. I've been thinking about this cos of all the complaining I've been seeing online about how the Durham Farmer's Market is too expensive. First off, I don't think the prices (at least for some things) at DFM are that out of whack. Second, and this is the point Reusing is making, what are the hidden costs of food being as cheap as it is. It's easy to dismiss this idea as elitist. But I think it's more complicated than just "cheap=good; expensive=bad". Altho, honestly, I wonder sometimes about the people screaming that loudest about farmer's market pricing. I don't think they're the ones worried about running out of food money before the week runs out of days.