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...Kurlansky's America is vanishing and the Sterns' is still emerging, both describe a culinary landscape more fascinating than the hamburgers and pizza we're known for. It's the kind of dynamic cultural mash-up that occurred in Italy before each town's dishes were calcified into classics. While every highway Olive Garden and Chili's hinders that dynamism, local cuisine is not gone yet. "There is no national hot-dog chain," says Stern. "That's because people are so loyal to the hot dog with which they grew up." So maybe we're not quite Europe. That doesn...
Students criticized planned reductions in Quad shuttle service and hot breakfast offerings at four Town Hall Forums held Monday by Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds just hours after the changes were announced.Hammonds began the town hall circuit with low-key, primarily one-on-one meetings in Lamont Café, followed by larger group meetings in Quincy, Cabot, and Mather Houses, where she was joined by other members of the College administration to answer questions and hear students concerns about the changes—part of $77 million in reductions announced by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...change from this week that did concern Thomas was a suggested increase in section size as a result of “close scrutiny” of the allocation of teaching assistants and teaching fellows. At a town hall forum on Monday, Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay M. Harris said the College plans to make its current target maximum number of students per section more of an “average...
...among other things. America, in return, was responsible for the statue's base and pedestal, to be constructed within the existing walls of Fort Wood, an Army post on what was then known as Bedloe's Island. At first, most Americans weren't fans of Lady Liberty; out-of-town newspapers and political leaders scoffed at the idea of backing a "local" New York project. Momentum began to shift as Joseph Pulitzer used his New York World to talk up the effort, prompting benefit balls, theatrical performances and donations from schoolchildren to help finish...
About 400 people gathered in the Spanish town of Jabugo's Plaza of Ham for a gala dinner. They ate outdoors beneath an almost full moon, as candles flickered on tables draped with heavy cloths, flamenco guitars thrummed in the background, and liveried waiters served plates of seared tuna and beef tenderloin. But for all that elegance, no one stayed seated for long. Along the edges of the plaza, a dozen of the country's most renowned ham cutters (yes, there is such a thing) carved off glistening slices of jamón ibérico - ibérico...