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Harvard students may be making do with scraggly salads in the face of a nationwide tomato famine, but diners at the University’s more posh eating establishments are still able to see red mixed in their greens...
...food is suitably hearty. Even vegetable-heavy appetizers manage to pack a punch, with the tomato and bufala mozzarella appetizer weighing in the size of a particularly intimidating double cheese-burger. The Charlie Smith shellfish bouquet is the restaurant’s signature first-course. It’s ostensibly designed for two to four but features enough oysters alone to feed a small family for a week. Come in a group and go easy on the starters; there’s a lot to them, but you’ll need to save that valuable stomach-space...
Mother Nature has wreaked havoc on the California tomato crop, where the majority of growing regions for tomatoes are located. As a result, there has been a steep reduction in the amount of tomatoes available. In addition, according to Crista Martin, Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) Director of Marketing and Communications, “what can be harvested is of mediocre quality at best.” Unfortunately, Harvard can’t buy its way out of this one, and HUDS has been receiving fewer and fewer shipments...
Students have been bearing the bad news well. There have been very few comment cards on the dire tomato situation, and no negative feedback, according to Kenisha J. Perkins, the HUDS Customer Service Manager for Eliot and Kirkland House Dining Halls. “Not as of yet,” she says. “Surprisingly...
...students like Mary E. Birnbaum ’07, there will be problems when the tart treats run out. “I like my salads not to be all green, and I hate beans, carrots and potatoes. I really do enjoy a good tomato,” Birnbaum says. Martin suggests substitutions like carrots or cucumbers but for Birnbaum, “Nothing beats a tomato.” In the end, Birnbaum has resigned herself to just “inclement-weather...