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...warm day in April, and the private dining room at Gramercy Tavern, one of New York City's top restaurants, is set for a tasting. Kevin Garry, Gramercy's assistant beverage director, has lined up five glasses and five bottles on the long wooden table. First, Garry pours a 2002 Schneider Aventinus from Germany. It's caramel colored, with hints of nutmeg and banana bread. Next up is a spicy Hitachino from Japan, followed by a 1998 Rogue Old Crustacean from Oregon, with sherry and port qualities. "This is the new torch holder," he says as he fills a fourth...
...course, if caramel and raisin don't sound like torchworthy qualities for wine, that's because J.W. Lees isn't a wine. It's a beer, one of about two dozen on Gramercy Tavern's new vintage-beer list...
Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 kicked off the ceremony, held in the hallway outside the pub, by describing the connection between Harvard’s Queen’s Head and a tavern in Southwark, England, with the same name. John Harvard bequeathed the Southwark locale to the University in the 19th century, but it later burned down...
...Classic Movies interview, she found salvation under the gentle care of Father Peter McGuire. Hutton earned a cum laude degree from Salve Regina College, then taught drama and music. Her motto might have been the Johnny Burke-Jimmy Van Heusen novelty number she sang in the movie Duffy's Tavern: "I Have to Do It the Hard Way." She made it tough on everyone: her audience, her colleagues, herself...
...Harvard students are daily dazed by the unforgiving neon glow of modernity, and we need our reactionary refuge. And if we can’t recline in the storied pubs of Oxford or Cambridge, our coming college tavern mockup is as close as we?...