Musings
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Musings, Recipes, Vegetarian/Vegan
Dinner and a Movie: Before Midnight
Spending a summer working at movie theater in Hollywood has its perks. I get to bask in the glamour of serving popcorn to and cleaning up after stars who pop by the sneak peaks of their new openings; I am comforted by the scent of freshly made kettle corn while I scrub the lenses of [...]
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Fika Fridays: Where the Fika Have You Been? (Also, Pudding)
Sometimes, life gets weird. It all happens in a very short period of time. Coincidences, accidents, fate, luck, bad luck, good luck, providence, misfortune, destiny, doom, kismet, the way the cookie crumbles. Whatever you want to call it, I’ve basically imploded emotionally this semester. But somehow, I made it through and have kept going [...]
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Back to Basics with Bread
The memory of how fresh dough feels on my hands gets me out of bed at four-thirty in the morning. Padding into the kitchen, I’m greeted by the stillness of a lounge inactive for a couple of hours, and the instruments of my personal chemistry lab—beakers, pipettes, teaspoons, and bag after bag of half-used flour [...]
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Sidestepping Bread
Every year, my high school tennis coach gave everyone on the team nicknames. It was like a rite of passage to receive your nickname, it not only meant that you had passed the threshold from junior varsity to varsity but also that you had earned a joking relationship with coach. I remember getting mine. Living [...]
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¡Ay Caramba!
When I decided to use this dish as the subject of my next Hungry Abroad post, I couldn’t help but ask, “Boo, how are you going to put this into words?” But here I am and I’m going to give it my best shot! It was a friend’s 21st birthday and the birthday boy decided [...]
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Paradise at the Salad Bar
One of the first things I did when I returned to the city from my stint in Colorado was venture down to 110th street to visit my favorite local grocery store: Westside Market. I had grown used to the spacious plains of my home state and I think in the process I forgot how incredibly [...]
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Delusions of Grandeur and Teriyaki Chicken
The Gluten-Free Manifesto. One of my most missed guilty pleasures is Chinese take-out. I don’t miss all of it though; a considerable portion of my freshman fifteen can be attributed Ollie’s. There were too many times I went in ready to tell them off and say “no more to your shitty food,” only to leave [...]
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Salad and Chocolate: Culinary Adventures in Israel
I recently returned home from a 10-day trip to Israel. Not surprisingly, many of my favorite memories from the trip involve food. First of all, I am entirely convinced that Americans are incorrect about breakfast. Friends who had been to Israel before had told me about the glory of “Israeli Breakfast,” and the reality lived [...]
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The Chipotle Crown
Jean makes eating at Chipotle an art form by making his own lactose-free, gluten-free version when he finally gets to return home to Colorado. For most of my adolescent life I grew up in Colorado. I grew to love the rolling plains, imposing mountains, agreeable mountaineers and perhaps the most redeeming quality, the fact that [...]
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Importing Tamales: It runs in the family
Manon’s winter break story is filled with TSA trials and tribulations, but her good humor and amazing cooking skills leads us once again to a fantastic recipe. Every time my family and I go to France, my parents manage to bring the most outrageous things with them in the suitcases. A couple years ago for [...]
