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| Pad Thai, recipes below |
Classes have started here at Babson College and I start a post-doc year at Harvard next week. Thus it's time to run my annual back to school series in which I talk about the experience through the lens of food from all different educational levels and different decades. The Paper Chase (1973) http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2574452505/ is a movie about the Harvard Law School experience. A movie about my graduate school experience in Maxwell School’s History Department at Syracuse University would be called The Food Chase (1992 to 1999).The History Department at Syracuse would get a hiring line authorized and form a search committee consisting of professors and a couple of graduate students. To get hired at a university a candidate has to gain the approval of the most power full lot in the department—the tenured professors. Departments may receive as many as 200 applications for one position and they are only going to invite in most cases three people to do an on campus interview. The on campus interview consist of a job talk about one’s research, meetings with administrators, meeting with undergraduate and graduate students, and often two or three meals with members of the search committee. Getting an office administrator to put you on list of people going to dinner with the candidate was fantastic because the faculty brought the candidate to an impressive restaurant off campus that most grad students could not otherwise afford. Thus dinner with a candidate promised a rare meal of fine dining including an appetizer, entree, and dessert; this was like nirvana to me as a starving graduate student! Here a entree I remember from a candidate dinner at Yellow Grass in the now gentrified section of armory square in Syracuse.
Pad Thai recipe: http://kokocooks.blogspot.com/2010/11/pad-thai.html
