Kim Severson Nyt News Service

It's been a busy week for vegetables. The baby-carrot industry tried to reposition its product as junk food, starting a $25 million advertising campaign whose defining characteristics include heavy metal music, a phone app and a young man in a grocery cart dodging baby-carrot bullets fired by a woman in tight jeans.On the East Side of Manhattan, cr...

Even preschool teachers unwind with a round of drinks now and then. But in professional kitchens, where the hours are long, the pace is intense and the goal is to deliver pleasure, the need to blow off steam has long involved substances that are mind-altering and, often enough, illegal.

The new breed of boutique roasters who focus extraordinary levels of attention on finding good beans are changing the art of decaf.

It's been a busy week for vegetables. The baby-carrot industry tried to reposition its product as junk food, starting a $25 million advertising campaign whose defining characteristics include heavy metal music, a phone app and a young man in a grocery cart dodging baby-carrot bullets fired by a woman in tight jeans.On the East Side of Manhattan, cr...

Even preschool teachers unwind with a round of drinks now and then. But in professional kitchens, where the hours are long, the pace is intense and the goal is to deliver pleasure, the need to blow off steam has long involved substances that are mind-altering and, often enough, illegal.

The new breed of boutique roasters who focus extraordinary levels of attention on finding good beans are changing the art of decaf.