The other day, a group of us students discussing the subtleties of various chocolate chip cookie (totally normal, right?) when one of my classmates recited her famous chocolate chip cookie recipe step-by-step, from the creaming of the butter and sugar to the precise moment when to pull the cookies from the oven. Such an impressive [...]

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Today as I settled into my “Principles of Food” class, the professor immediately demanded that we all take out a piece of paper. “We are going to take a quiz.” Crap. As it turns out, this quiz was no examination of nutritional knowledge but rather a tool to determine our respective cooking personalities. The professor [...]

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It seems that the recurring theme of my life these days is trying something new: I’m attending a new school, learning how to live on my own, and acquainting myself with a new city. I made progress on that last item on the list this past weekend—with the help of Seth, of course. First, we [...]

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