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...some strange twist of preppy fate, the brainstorming for this article took place at the WASP epicenter—a quaint, boutique-dotted road in the middle of Martha’s Vineyard. With so much research material at my fingertips, I was poised to make a brilliant and insightful commentary on Harvard’s preppy culture...
...Huntington served as a top foreign policy adviser to Vice President Hubert Humphrey, who was then vying with Richard Nixon for the White House. That summer, he and longtime pal Henry A. Kissinger ’50 vacationed in Martha’s Vineyard. Kissinger—who had worked for Nelson Rockefeller in the New York governor’s primary bid against Nixon—casually offered to leak Huntington Rockefeller’s secret files on Nixon, Huntington says...
...undergraduates should at least consider playing gourmand.Which is why, on a recent Tuesday night, I found myself skipping Quincy dining hall in favor of Harvest restaurant and partaking of one of their regular wine dinner events. This particular dinner was hosted by Steve Edmunds of Edmund St. John Vineyard and featured a series of four wines alongside customized dishes created by Harvest chef Eric Brennan...
...word in, the two highlight just what’s missing from the daily grind of undergraduate dining: joy. These people are unabashedly, deliriously, downright nerdily in love with food and wine. Just listen to Steve Edmunds talk about grapes. For this man, a visit to the vineyard is apparently tantamount to spiritual pilgrimage...
...When I tell this story, you’re going to think, this guy is from Berkeley,” Edmunds tells the assembled diners. “And I am. I felt connected to the vineyard site. I went and looked at the grapes and had an eerie experience that the Mouvedre grapes were looking at me, that they were glowing. Even later, when they were picked, they were still glowing...