Word: flavors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Pumpkin seems to be the flavor of the night, altogether appropriate for the everpresent harvest theme. One dessert pays homage to the bulbous fruit in myriad ways: "The Pumpkin Patch" offers a pumpkin pot-de-creme, pumpkin strudel, pumpkin preserves, pumpkin ice cream and pumpkin brittle, all for $8. Enough to do Cinderella proud. For a bit more variety, the Harvest Ginger Bread is dense, not overly sweet and peppered with chunks of caramelized ginger. It is normally served with rice pudding ice cream (although quite tasty topped with the aforementioned pumpkin ice cream) and caramelized pear cranberry compote...
...guesswork I was able to match most of the dishes with the items listed on the menu. The star of the spread was definitely the Beef Oxtail. The meat was unbelievably tender, the kind of tender where you practically don't have to chew. It had a piquant, peppery flavor with a full-bodied beefy sauce that can only be produced through hours of patient simmering. Very tasty. Also quite good was a chicken stew that was bizarrely Germanized on the menu as "Chicken Stroganoff." The chicken was smothered in a garlicky cream sauce with a surprising dash of ketchup...
...offering a skewer of beef. It's described on the menu as "Top Butt Sirloin--Chef Exclusive grade!" in fact. Um, how appetizing. Certainly better than a mediocre cut of butt, I suppose. However, the beef was disappointingly dry and fairly bland. Barbecuing usually gives meats a rich smoky flavor, but this was sadly not the case here. Still, the quality was not consistent across meat lines. The barbecued lamb and pork did have more flavor. And standout was the linguica sausage, which distinguished itself as the best of the skewers. The linguica had spicy zing...
...time. Glabicki's open-hearted voice on the surprisingly sincere "Rising Sun" stood out as a pleasant change from the rest of the folk-rock repertoire. "Magenta Radio" was good clean funky fun, and "Kill You Dead" brought to mind a good old-fashioned hoe-down with a Southwestern flavor. The multitalented bassist Patrick Norman and percussionists Jim Donovan, John Buynak and Jim DiSpirito collaborated on "Agbadza," a piece of intense drumbeats backed up by Berlin's perfectly pitched wails. To finish up the set before coming back for an encore, the group belted out a crowd-rocking rendition...
When Harvard decided to focus their location search on the Swedenborgian block, a largely residential area in the vicinity of the Design School, administrators quickly recognized that the grand scale of the project would likely conflict with the desires of the Cambridge community to maintain the residential flavor of the neighborhood...