With Suzanne’s culinary talent and Caroline’s business acumen they made a formidable creative team. The meeting was life-changing for both and led to the opening of their flagship restaurant, Lucques, in 1998. While there, she was introduced to Suzanne Goin. In 1994, she teamed with celebrated restaurateur Sean MacPherson at Jones, in Hollywood.
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There is nothing wrong with being a working person in the United States of America, and there is everything dignified about it.Raised in Los Angeles and educated in Santa Barbara, Caroline Styne planned a career as a professional in the art world but the restaurant business called to her. The congresswoman recently asserted, “I’m proud to be a bartender. Ocasio-Cortez has responded to the anti-bartender rhetoric by stressing that she takes pride in that part of her history. And she mocked Carlson in another tweet that same day, posting, “You mad, bro?” “You know we’re winning when the GOP resort to vapid personal insults,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted on April 2. But to AOC (who was tending bar in New York City as recently as late 2017), Carlson only made himself look silly with the attack. Similarly, Fox News’ buffoonish Tucker Carlson recently attacked the Green New Deal by sneering that “a 29-year-old former bartender” is being used by MSNBC “to teach you about science.” As Carlson sees it, the fact that Ocasio-Cortez once tended bar and waited tables invalidates anything she has to say about the economy, infrastructure or climate change.
Yet when he mentions the fact that Ocasio-Cortez once tended bar, he does so with condescension-and the message is that someone with that background isn’t qualified to discuss economic policy or offer ideas on infrastructure and energy in the form of a Green New Deal. Greatly influenced by fellow Republican Patrick Buchanan, President Donald Trump has campaigned on a faux-populism and proclaimed his love of blue-collar workers (at least the white ones). But when Republicans use the word “bartender” in connection with Ocasio-Cortez, it becomes an epithet and an assertion that she doesn’t know her place.
For the left, her transition from bartender to congresswoman is a story of upward mobility-a demonstration that a working class family from Puerto Rico can move to New York City and advance economically. Liberals and progressives will also note that Ocasio-Cortez tended bar in the past, but their message is totally different. And the more Republicans use the word “bartender” as an insult in connection with Ocasio-Cortez, the more they show the ugly classism that characterizes their party in 2019. Anyone who consumes right-wing media is inundated with anti-AOC conversations and articles, many of which try to attack her credibility by mentioning the fact that she was once a bartender. The right-wing media, from Fox News to AM talk radio to Breitbart News, is obsessed with the 29-year-old congresswoman - and not in a good way. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the one who far-right Republicans appear to hate the most. Of all the new members of Congress who were victorious in the 2018 midterms and seated in January, Rep. This article originally appeared on AlterNet.
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