We all face the same predicament every time a friend has a birthday in college: do we make a cake or buy one? Freshman year, the ice cream cake in Weshop seemed liked the obvious choice because I did everything I could to avoid the dorm kitchens. Sophomore and junior year, when I lived in […]
Sweet Harmony Café is Middletown’s best-kept secret that’s not actually supposed to be a secret. Unfortunately, most people at Wesleyan don’t know about this hidden gem, even though the café has been open for nine years. Wesleyan students are probably unfamiliar with Sweet Harmony because it’s located off the beaten track on 158 Broad Street […]
Stuck in Middletown on Feb 14? Lamenting the lack of sophisticated dinner date options? Wish you had an elegant, nearby, dare we say romantic spot to take your significant other this Valentine’s Day? Look no further than Main Street’s Luce, which is within walking or driving (thanks, the Ride!) distance from campus. This place has […]
My dad, who grew up in Brooklyn, used to buy an egg cream for five cents at the local candy store. He laughed when I described to him what I imagined egg cream would be: a chocolate egg filled with cream. I was somewhat embarrassed to learn that unlike eggnog, egg cream contains no […]
Main St. Mexican mainstay, Iguanas Ranas has moved (albeit only a couple blocks) to nestle up next to their chief competitor, La Boca. No longer the cramped, budget taqueria where you paid at the counter and bussed your own table, the new Iguanas Ranas is enormous, full-service, fully-licensed, and now has its own cantina-styled bar. […]
If there’s at least one thing to master in a foreign country where English is not spoken, it’s finding delicious food.
These cookies have a deep, soothing smack of molasses that melts on your tongue and a dazzling, spicy bite of ginger, which complements the sweet coating of sugar. They’re impossibly soft and chewy.
My kitchen is exploding with squash. My pantry is full of all types—acorn, winter, pumpkin, spaghetti, and butternut. We’ve been working for weeks to get rid of them through various recipes, but they just won’t disappear. I’ve made butternut squash soup (several different ways), roasted squash, mashed squash, squash in stews, and even squash pie […]
It’s almost time for holiday parties, which of course means holiday drinks. Here are a few recipes—straight from South America—to spice up your holiday drinks repertoire because we can’t drink eggnog all December long.
Upon returning to Full House after Thanksgiving Break, the last thing Rachel and I were expecting to find in the fridge was a twenty-pound bag of Bugs Bunny’s favorite beta-carotene filled snacks, straight from the Docter Family Farm. What are we going to do with these carrots, you might ask? In an effort to improve […]