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Catch up with the food world here. This is your guide to college-student-proof recipes, restaurants worth your money, reviews of the best coffee shops and more. Enjoy these juicy posts, from our kitchen to yours.

Green with envy: Matcha madness


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These days, it seems like the latest health trends center on hyper-nutrient green items. We have all read once or twice about our good friend kale or enjoyed the elegant, refreshing taste of spinach in our smoothies, but there’s another green ingredient we need to remember to add to the mix: matcha. Matcha, a catchy […]

Sweet Farmers Market finds to look out for


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Every Wednesday, I always find time in my schedule to go to McCarthy Quad to visit the weekly Farmers Market. The Farmers Market was started to make it more convenient for students to shop for groceries; it features local farmers selling their fresh produce. Now that it has expanded, it is teeming with vendors selling […]

Comoncy: A corner café that can’t disappoint


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If I had to choose between espresso and food, I’d probably choose espresso. If I had the option of having both, I’d choose Comoncy. Tucked away on Bedford Drive with the likes of Go Greek Yogurt, Pressed Juicery, Bedford & Burns and Anastasia Beverly Hills Salon lies Comoncy, a little corner café serving up espresso, pastries, […]

The Donut Man, a.k.a. the only man I need


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★★★★☆ To kick off my tour of donut places around Los Angeles, I took a trip down the classic Route 66 to Glendora to look for the man, the myth, the legend: The Donut Man. What I found was a small house-like building off the side of the road that was sandwiched between other small […]

Tips to stay safe with juice cleanses


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Companies like Pressed Juicery and Suja Fresh sell the promise of “better living” in a bottle. With trendy packaging and ingredients like kale and coconut water, the appeal of juice cleanses or juice-only diets is obvious. But, juice cleanses are easy to buy into but hard to go through. Juice cleanses take you on a […]

Four one-of-a-kind tortilla recipes for college students


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As college students, we’re always looking to stretch a dollar as far as we can. When it comes to grocery shopping, it can be difficult to find affordable ingredients that can be used in multiple ways. Tortillas are one of my favorite go-­tos when it comes to making a quick, cheap and easy meal. Gone […]