Tag Archive for: that’s what she ate

Creating a tasty holiday break


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It’s that time of year: the calm before the storm. Thanksgiving is fast approaching, but less than a week from the annual rite of turkey feasting, you get overwhelmed by a mad flurry of exams, research papers and all-nighter induced Red Bull binges. Right after the semester ends and you think relief is in sight, […]

Saving cash and eating healthy


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College students sometimes get a bad reputation for being freebie whores. USC might be half-jokingly referred to as the University of Spoiled Children, but that does not mean that students don’t have their scrimping moments, especially after storming through a big blowout sale at The Grove. The free samples at Yogurtland are nice, but visiting […]

An L.A. way to feast on pumpkin


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Fall can be a morose season for college students, especially as Halloween draws near. It’s the time of the year when students are reminded once again that they are now grown-ups. Instead of romping through mounds of leaves and asking for candied apples, they are the ones raking in the leaves and paying for their […]

Food blogs aren’t just for critics


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You’ve probably never noticed food bloggers before. But if you look around, they are everywhere — from fancy bistros, cafes and celebrity chef-owned restaurants to food festivals, food trucks and the latest hole-in-the-wall hot spots. They lug their fancy DSLR cameras or whip out surreptitious iPhones, snapping away at anything and everything edible, from sloppy […]

More to Korean street food than taco trucks


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Thanks to the influx of the popular Korean-fusion food truck Kogi and its imitators, an Angeleno is most likely to think of sesame seed-sprinkled beef on corn tortillas when talking about “Korean street food.” Obviously, street food takes a different scene in the actual streets of Korea. Instead of the rumbling, Twitter-savvy, colorful trucks that […]

Boosting up your diet with potatoes


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Po-tay-toes, Po-tah-toes: Why potatoes are sexy. Even if you’re not a foodie, you might have been asked this question from a random Facebook survey: “If you were a food, what would you be?” As far as I know, no one has ever replied, “I want to be a potato!” And that got me thinking: Why […]