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.
A recent article in the NY Times (The New Age Caveman and the City) discusses a trendy throwback diet. 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 lot 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 would actually be illegal within Central Park. (An assault on a mere squirrel results in a $1,000 fine!). 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 frequently donate blood, this is in order to simulate the frequent injuries their prehistoric role models are believed to have sustained. Although a tiny minority in New York, paleos should be popular with the City's butchers, if not the greengrocers.
(Photo courtesy of NY Times.com)
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