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...main dishes arrive and are placed atop the table with a flourish. The fried clam platter is a heaping plate of crisp clams, seasoned French fries and homemade coleslaw. The traditional New England clambake takes up a good part of the table itself—the lobster is accompanied by mussels, clams, corn on the cob, potatoes, chorizo and an egg. The egg, Assistant General Manager Chris McGann explains, is a vestige of the olden days when the cook timed the steaming of the lobster by boiling an egg simultaneously. The yellowfin tuna steak is precisely cooked with a tender...
...different information they discovered. Searching through books and magazines in the library is cathartic in a way that thumbing through a coursepack can never be; an idea that you discover on your own is infinitely more rewarding than one presented to you on Harvard’s silver platter. And in that “Eureka!” moment, real intellectual originality is born...
...says he decided to cook up a celebration of his own. He brought Kenser a menu one morning, offering to treat her to breakfast in bed. “I think she ordered French Toast,” he says. But when Heck lifted the lid off the silver platter, he revealed a sparkling engagement ring. Hannah accepted the delectable proposal, and the two will marry next summer...
...well as more unusual ones such as the “Children’s Tea.” Within moments, our drinks were served in their own individual pots, along with sticks of rock sugar, honey and milk. The accompanying snacks arrived on a three-tiered serving platter. Sipping our fragrant blends and nibbling on white chocolate cherry scone spread with delicious clotted cream, we could almost detect the slightest English lilt in our normal (American and Australian, respectively) speech patterns. The sandwiches were high-class variations on the traditional cucumber and watercress variety, and included carrot mousse...
...women in the service of someone else. At the same time, however, it is also a functional dish that could be used to serve a real dinner. The title thus bears itself out in a moralistic hypothetical: What if a maid had to serve dinner on this serving platter...