The great dining disruption
At Yale, in New Haven, and beyond, the pandemic forced dining halls and restaurants into a major overhaul.
Corby Kummer ’78 is executive director of the Food and Society policy program at the Aspen Institute, senior lecturer at the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition, and a senior editor at the Atlantic.
Mark Ostow
Restaurants like The Bagelry, part of Olmo in New Haven, retooled kitchens for the pandemic era. View full image
Mark Ostow
Restaurants like The Bagelry, part of Olmo in New Haven, retooled kitchens for the pandemic era. View full image
Mark Ostow
Rafi Taherian, associate vice president for Yale Hospitality, says Yale dining will never be quite the same: “We’re never going back to the same processes” of menu writing and food purchasing. He is pictured here in the dining hall of Timothy Dwight College with pantry worker Wanda Underwood (center) and Crystal Coleman, a third cook (right).
Oct 13, 2020
NEW HAVEN, CT Following the cult-like success of Citrus Week and the outcry following the cancellation of Olive Oil week, Yale Dining has unveiled their latest culinary event, set to be a bigger crowd pleaser than the brownie pudding and coconut macaroons combined: Beer Week.
Taking a note from Yale’s esteemed fraternities (who have been hosting similar beer weeks since their inception), Yale Hospitality staff will now offer kegs, beer pong, funnels, and more at every residential college dining hall. The dining halls will serve a variety of beers to accommodate every student’s needs: from cans of Bud Light to Yale Hospitality’s own home-brewed Bulldog-Beer™ on tap.
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By Jim Shelton
January 19, 2021
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Seven months and a lifetime ago, Anna Martinelli-Parker had a major decision to make.
Should she leave her parents’ home in Washington, D.C., and start college at Yale in person on campus? Should she live at home and take classes remotely? Or should she take a gap year?
“I knew I wanted to come to New Haven, but it was very hard,” said Martinelli-Parker, a first-year student. “I had to think about my own health … There was a lot of deliberation.”