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Fika Fridays: Coffee Shop & Library Hours
So it’s not quite Friday and it’s not quite a Fika*, but for the last Culinary post of the semester (check back for a resumed schedule June 1), I’m here to fill you in on local library times and coffee shops so that way you can be super effective during this finals season. Try out [...]
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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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Fika Fridays: Comedy, scrumptiousness, de Wafels!
Not sure what a fika is? Click here to find out. For the student on the go, food trucks are quite possibly one of the most beautiful things to ever grace the city’s streets. Food trucks can vary in size and food offering, but each attracts its supplicants with rich smells, loud music, and colorful side [...]
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Foodie Flicks: Stranger Than Fiction
Stranger Than Fiction is one of my favorite films of all time. In fact, I’d even go so far as to say it’s tied for first with Amelie, Beverly Hills Cop, and Casablanca. I’m being serious. So if you say that you don’t like this movie, I’m not sure we can be friends. My point? It’s [...]
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Photography, Restaurant Reviews
Fika Fridays: Cupcakes in the Snow
Not sure what a fika is? Click here to find out. This past Sunday, my roommate Allison led some friends and I down to Chinatown for the Chinese New Year’s festival (it’s the Year of the Snake now, in case you want to be culture savvy). Allison and our friend Josh impressively climbed to the [...]
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Foodie Finds, Restaurant Reviews
Fika Fridays: Kuro Kuma in Harlem
One of my favorite walks around campus is walking north on Broadway past the Union Theological Seminary and the Manhattan School of Music. Not only does it provide picturesque reminders of local academia, but also views of the 1 train dipping past the horizon as buildings rise and fall like mountains. In the spring, trees [...]
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Fika Fridays: Chocolate Pasta (Oh Yeah, It’s Real)
Over Election Day break, my roommate Allison got flown out to Seattle for a job interview. I’m one of those people who really likes rainy days (a bit irrationally so) so when my roommate asked how much it rains in Washington, I don’t think she was expecting so much joy in my voice when I [...]
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Foodie Flicks: Waitress
I think it’s common knowledge that the days before Thanksgiving are somehow just as crazy as the actual holiday itself. For some reason, we, as a society, build it up. Professors assign papers due before this rare relief from academia. Friends try to squeeze in brunch. Organizations decide to hold elections, have dinners, and throw [...]
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Fika Fridays: For Fika’s Sake
Amanda took a walk for the sake of walking and ended up writing a much more different fika post than she originally intended. Not sure what a fika is? Click here to find out! I was going to write something much more funny and altogether sardonic but I ended up taking a fika today that [...]
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Foodie Finds, Restaurant Reviews
Kick it with Korilla
Kicking it with Korilla from Amanda Tien on Vimeo. Busy dealing with Sandy? Watch the Korilla video and get excited for the rain to stop so the truck can come back and hang out on campus. Until then, dream of kimchi and gogo gui wrapped up in a delicious burrito. Some of you may know [...]
