Feed Me: Hamptons Edition
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Hello everyone.
Welcome to another Hamptons edition of Feed Me. I’m currently on the train out to Mattituck, so it feels fitting to be sending this one today. Today’s letter includes everything from where Sofia Coppola is rumored to have purchased her new Hamptons house, a conversation with someone who got kicked off of the LIRR for their violently hungover friend, a missing Patek Philippe Calatrava in East Hampton, where all of your Duryea’s lobster money is going, a fundraising deck for a Southampton theater being sent around by a billionaire, and what you can expect from the housing market in Montauk over the next few years.
BUT FIRST! Our next Guest Lecture is with Ayan Aidid, who is a longtime friend of mine (we met at Great Jones, take a shot for us) who is leaving New York to go to… HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL.
If you’re new here, Guest Lecture is a series where I introduce you all to an expert who I’m curious about, and give paid readers an opportunity to submit questions to them.
“Hi everyone. My name’s Ayan and I’m about to go off to business school. I’ve been at The RealReal as a product manager for 3 years and before that, dabbled in various product and operations roles in DTC startups (that’s where I met Emily!). Choosing to go to b-school was honestly a long and conflicting process, but I’ve ultimately decided it’s the right move for me for a few reasons:
I’m a naturally curious person & have always loved school/being in a classroom so to me the idea of going back to school is exciting—nerdy yes, but I genuinely love to learn new things and no better place to do that than school IMO
Next up is exposure. I’m all about inserting myself into new environments and surrounding myself with unique people. To me, business school felt like a great opportunity to do that—connect and befriend some smart, ambitious people, discover new ways of thinking. The idea of starting a business while at school is alluring and a place that offers relatively protected trial and error is hard to pass up.
And finally, frankly, I wanted a bit of a break. I’ve felt burnout from the monotony that is a 9-5 job for a while and I wanted a productive change of pace, to shake things up and switch up how I operate
It wasn’t an easy choice as cost, career pause, and literally up and moving to a new city were huge factors that made it particularly difficult to decide. But I’ve committed and I’m off to HBS in a few weeks 🤞🏾 if u are curious about my thought process and/or anything regarding b-school, enter the Feed Me chat.”
NEWS:
Uber drivers in the Hamptons are switching to private once they pick up riders. I got into a few last weekend who asked if they could turn off Uber (specifically to get on the Shelter Island ferry) and just get paid via Venmo. They all also mentioned how absolutely insane people get picked up from the Surf Lodge act. “I bought this car knowing these kids would ruin it, I guess,” one driver told me.
I reported a few weeks ago that TWP opened in Sag Harbor. I went into the store and everything was quite beautiful, but I particularly loved the blueberries in the flower arrangements. Two nights ago I went to Altro Paradiso with friend-of-the-letter Cami Tellez and they also had berries in their flower arrangements – their version had a spectrum of underripe bright red blackberries, to ripened deep purple ones. I’m sorry I didn’t take a photo.
There’s a new health food store in Amagansett Square. It’s called Love Eats Market and it’s from the owners of Love Adorned (which has a store in the same square). A reader live updated me from her first trip to the store, who said, “The selects were incredible and they’ve only been open for three weeks. Everything is seed oil-free and refined sugar which is really hard for a health food store. The owner has been gluten-free for 20 years so lots of great GF and dairy-free options, but she also has bison.” Other friends said the store is pristine, and a stronger LA vibe than Happier Grocer. I love a crunchy addition to the neighborhood.
