Soft-shell crab with a hazelnut salad, fried oysters with a green-chile-buttermilk dressing, a gin-and-tonic salmon with a subtle juniper aroma: these were creative combinations not often seen on New York menus.
Though he encountered his share of racism--at one Friar event the chancellor's wife assumed he was a waiter and ordered him to fetch her a gin and tonic--he also had his share of opportunities.