Food Week Posts
Toxic Foods
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By Adam Di Stefano On November 1st, 2009, I began a 21-day holistic detox diet. I had been meaning to go on this detox ever since a good friend of mine had done it and raved about the results. I began the day after Halloween. Whenever I told anyone about the detox, I got a [...]
A South European’s Struggle With American Food
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By Andreana “Addy” Drencheva I have lived in the USA for four years now and it has always been a struggle. A struggle with homesickness. A struggle with cultural differences. A struggle with different expectations. But I’ve become used to life in the USA and I’ve even learned to enjoy it. One aspect of my [...]
Enough Of The Paper Menus!
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By Mariam Shahab We’ve matured from the days of ramen noodles satisfying our mere hunger pangs, and upgraded to relying on delivery to satiate our palates. When searching for food delivery, one-stop shop sites like Campusfood, Delivery.com and Grub Hub have marked their territory. Since we’re all hyper-connected but shy of actually speaking on our [...]
Fast Food Frenzy
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There’s just something about a McDonald’s sausage, egg, and cheese McMuffin that makes me want to be a fat kid. They only serve it until breakfast ends, usually around 11 a.m. (yes, I’ve figured out the schedule), but if I looked like a modern-day Jabba the Hut, I’d buy a day’s supply every morning. But [...]
The Real Risks of Real Food
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Food has always been a central theme of family gatherings, but I don’t think you could call us a typical American family. Growing up, we ate out a lot or ordered takeout simply because busy work and school schedules got in the way of preparing dinner. For the most part though, both my parents had [...]
Cooking From A Book Is So Last Century
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After my sophomore year in college, I found myself living on my own for the first time in my life. Bewildered by the nature of independence, I suffered through the initial weeks on a diet of grilled cheese, cold cereal, and frozen pizza. Any attempts at creating my own works of culinary skill resulted in [...]
The Next Overweight Generation
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By Jenna Mitby Do you ever wish you could eat whatever you wanted without worrying about gaining weight? I do. But, I didn’t always have such a hostile relationship with food. Rewind to my senior year of high school, a typical day included: pancakes for breakfast, a candy bar or two during second period, three [...]
It Takes Two Men To Make This Woman Happy
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There is no denying it. I’m in love. But the problem is that it’s with two men: Ben and Jerry. They make some of the most delicious ice cream I’ve ever tasted and it’s even gotten to the point where I work for them now. I’m an ice cream scooper at a Scoop Shop less [...]
Is Healthy Food Cool?
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Food has moved beyond being a necessity; it has moved into the realm of the symbolic. Shopping at Shaws and shopping at Whole Foods say different things. It is about being green, being organic, being healthy… and being able to fit into the size 4 Express skinny jeans? Our generation of cautious omnivores isn’t necessarily concerned [...]
If You Give A Dieter A Cookie
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By Alice Hu If I told you that you could lose weight by only eating cookies, would you believe me? Members of Generation Y crave instant gratification and often times we think that we can have it all. However, a cookie diet sounds too good to be true. It is obvious why the diet is [...]
