Ivy League dorm chef graduates to a hungry new world

NEW YORK (AP) — As a student at Columbia University, Jonah Reider wowed foodies and rankled city health officials by opening an exclusive supper club in his dorm.

[...] after graduating this week, the 22-year-old whiz chef from Newton, Massachusetts, is facing the same reality as a lot of other new college grads.

Four months after leaving his dorm, Reider is being booted from the Columbia-owned apartment where he hosted the latest incarnation of his supper club.

Reider's cooking career started when he and his friends at Newton South High School formed a grilling club.

[...] after one news outlet dubbed it "New York's hottest new restaurant," the waiting list quickly grew to thousands of wannabe guests.

Famed food critic Ruth Reichl, who attended one of Reider's meals at a mutual friend's house, later blogged that she found his fare "impossible to stop eating."