At Carlton Hobbs we're always interested in people like us, who are intrigued and fascinated by the past. In this case, the fascination goes a little farther back than usual. Faddy diets are always popular in New York, but the new Paleo diet is something different entirely. Like a sort of super Atkins det, it consists of eating large quantities of red meat, sometimes raw, and not very much else. Devotees of this regime refer to themselves as "cavemen", and frequently go long periods without eating to replicate the long gaps between meals our hunter-gather ancestors would have experienced. Dissappointingly, Paleo followers don't sharpen spears to hunt down wooly mammoths like proper cavemen but buy it from butchers instead, although actual hunter-gathering wouldn't be very practical in New York (not to mention illegal), unless you are Pale Male the 5th Avenue hawk. Although, given Manhattan real estate prices, living in a cave might be an economically wise option. Life tens of thousands of years ago was probably nasty, brutish and short. The nearest modern Paleos get to being chased by a sabre toothed tiger is to repeatly donate blood; blood which must be very protein rich indeed. Although a tiny minority in New York the Paleos should be popular with the City's butchers, if not the greengrocers.
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