Reporter's Notebook: Even in the cold, Clover is hot
In our “Reporter’s Notebook” series, we feature first-person accounts of News Office writers on life at the Institute.Customers of Clover Food Lab, the popular food truck that sits on Carleton Street behind MIT Medical, were treated to chocolate cupcakes on Friday in honor of a day-long television shoot for an upcoming show on the American cable television network TLC.From 5 a.m. until food supplies began to run low around 2 p.m., the camera crew shadowed Clover owner Ayr Muir ’00, SM ’01 for a show tentatively called “American Eats” that will highlight the best food in the country when it is launched sometime in the spring. Clover will appear in a five-minute segment as part of an episode that will presumably feature America’s best food trucks.As flurries of snow blew through the air at the peak of the lunch hour, Muir used an iPhone to place orders from more than...