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Don’t be afraid to play with your food: The case for reading the blurb and a simple black bean recipe
When you sit down to find a recipe, what are you searching for? You may have 10 minutes, an appreciation for authenticity, a peanut...
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This dude I met on the street
I’m wandering through the fog down backstreets, alleyways, and riverside footpaths at around about midday, dead phone, alone, dressed a bit too warm, and...
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Four Days in Jujuy
My world has always been small. I was born in a tiny New England town of 2,000 people. The city I've lived in for...
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A List of Differences Between Here and Home (With a Very British Reference At The End)
1. I’d believe that the Earth was rhomboid and President Donald Trump would lead us into an age of peace and prosperity before I’d...
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Who run the police station? Girls.
As four other students and I walked into the large, stone women’s police station in Dharamshala, we immediately remarked on the smell of fresh...
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Food is Language, Language is Food
I have been in France for more than two months and I have not blogged about food. I have eaten a lot of food—trust...
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Nice Things Podcast – Episode 7
Editor -
Your valiant hosts have returned from their foray into broadcast television in last week’s Electapalooza! election night webcast.
On the seventh episode of The Nice...
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Living in the Galapagos: who can legally be a Galapagueno
My host dad's family has lived on San Cristobal island for four generations. His family was part of a small population in the Galapagos...
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More than being right: Justice includes the unlovable
This week's post is by guest author SJ Hong. Hong is a senior biochemistry major at Occidental.Progress and justice do not always come hand...
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In the Vernacular
Vernacular is a great word, and not only because it's fun to say. A vernacular is simply any variation of a language a given...
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Stepping forward at the Barefoot College
Yesterday, I visited an organization that completely counters everything the American education system stands for and teaches us to aspire toward. The Barefoot College...
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African exodus to Europe reaches 100,000 migrants in 2014
The number of Africans migrating to Europe this year by boat has already passed 100,000. This number eclipses the past record for migrants in...
