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...then accompanied Allen and his colleagues into one of the prep rooms for an executive tasting session. One production manager from each on-campus kitchen had been invited to taste and rate dishes being developed for regular production. Entrees, soups and sauces had been arranged neatly on the table, steaming and ready to be scooped up. Allen distributed evaluation forms to the managers, asking them to rate on the basis of visual appeal, flavor profile (whether its temperature and flavor match its name), texture, authenticity and holding qualities (basically, how chicken pot pie looks when the pie part comes...
...redder,” announces Martin Breslin, the excecutive chef for residential dining. “More salt in the cream of spinach soup,” he confides to me. I make a mental note to do so the next time I’m in the kitchen...
...addition of “Harvard graduate” to her resume wasn’t necessarily helpful in Lydon’s initial forays into the culinary world, and her senior thesis on Jane Eyre certainly didn’t make kitchen doors fly open. But the intrepid Boston native is now a successfully established professional chef. She has worked in the acclaimed Boston restaurants Radius, Truc and Chez Henri, and she was named one of Food and Wine’s ten best new chefs in the country in the summer...
Multiculturalism probably doesn’t encompass the antics of the Kroks, but Lydon certainly could have drawn on personal experience to give her coworkers tips on what was going on. During her sophomore year, she began working part-time at the kitchen at UpStairs at the Pudding, the predecessor of UpStairs on the Square. Her friends, some of whom were Kroks and Pitches, often came to eat her food. While serving your peers has the potential to be uncomfortable, Lydon never had negative encounters with Harvard students on the other side of the table...
Lydon also enjoyed the friendly and nurturing staff atmosphere. The kitchen staff consisted mainly of women—mostly former English majors, in fact—who treated her like family. The waiters, too, she describes as “better educated than most...