Manhattan's frantic avenues might seem light-years away from the simple life, but associate editor Janice Castro, who wrote this week's cover story, found early evidence of the back-to-basics trend in her own West Side New York City neighborhood. "Last year my brother Jim came from California on a business trip," she recalls. "On the third day he took me to a cafe he had found near my apartment, a cozy little no-frills place. As we walked in the door, the woman who runs the restaurant greeted him with a big smile, said, 'The usual?' and started making his breakfast!"
Soon Castro...
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