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If any of the rest of you have gotten into the habit of frequenting the residential dining hall grills at lunch and dinner to add some protein to your pasta, salad, what have you… chances are you have realized some time over the past few weeks that these formerly tender, sometimes-too-dry, but otherwise tasty chicken breasts:

have been replaced by this darker, oddly shapen, somewhat suspect alternative:

After holding out for a while, I concluded that this was not simply a “we ran out of white meat,” temporary solution, but could actually be a permanent switch.

Director of Dining Services Stu Orefice vaguely confirmed this, saying:

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2009 IFMA Gold & Silver PlateFall may have officially started yesterday, but we all know that summer unofficially ended when your Webmail suddenly had fifteen unread messages  from Princeton director of this, coordinator of that, and person in charge of making sure you do that other thing.

Here at The Ink we thought it was time to get to know the people who fill up our inboxes daily. We’re rounding up some names were sure you’ll recognize — but probably not really know— for a special series of 21 questions.

Kickin’ it off is Director of Dining Services Mr. Stuart Orefice — or as most know him, simply Stu.

Name: Stu Orefice
Hometown: Eastchester, NY

What’s the best meal you’ve eaten on Princeton campus? Any meal in one of our great facilities prepared by one of our team members.

What’s your top vacation destination? The Jersey Shore

What is your greatest guilty pleasure? Bent Spoon coconut sorbet

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For someone who makes such a big deal about food, author-turned-activist Jonathan Safran Foer ’99 sure has a fairly low opinion of gustation. I don’t quite agree with his hierarchy:

“Look, taste is clearly the crudest of our senses: this is scientifically, objectively factual. It is less nuanced. Eyesight is extraordinary – hearing, touch. I find people who devote their whole lives to taste a little strange.” He stresses the last words as if this was a vast understatement.

Veggie blues.

Veggie blues.

Perhaps Dining Services weren’t in their finest form in the late ’90s?

Well, a lot of things aren’t quite right about this interview — it all sounds a little detached, a little demure. (He apparently checks his watch constantly and only answers questions in the negative.) Although if I were drinking something “the colour of manure” and considering food only in weighty philosophical terms–”symbols” or “the centre of stories”– I might be sort of down, too.

Cheer up, JSF. And maybe trade your dogma for a hot dog?

(image source: ft.com)