By: Yim Fan Yan One thing I take for granted from time to time is the privilege of having grown up multi-culturally in metropolitan Los Angeles. My family moved to the US in the late 1980s and eventually made...
By: Yim Fan Yan Student-to-student small talk. Y’all know what I’m talking about, right? 1) What year are you? (and if you’ve answered that you’re a graduate student how many years until you’re done?) 2) What’s your major? Why?...
By: Matt Teegarden Growing up, and through most of college, I was rather regimented in the times at which I ate my meals. Like an alarm clock, my stomach would growl- letting me know it is 3:00, time to...
By: Alex Pierce-Feldmeyer Often friends and family sigh to me– their convenient “foodie friend”– asking for advice on diet foods or about what those scary industrial manufacturers put into them. I have heard many requests for my opinion, but...
By Kristy Vest Have you ever sat across from your mother as she mixes and kneads the dough for cinnamon buns? Driving her crazy while describing how the starch molecules are reacting with the water, enzymes and yeasts? Have...
By Dr. Benjamin Chapman I’m a total food safety nerd. Had I not emailed my graduate school mentor, colleague and friend Doug Powell in the winter of 2000 looking for an on-campus summer job (while I was an undergraduate...
By Lily Yang A project I’ve recently been working on with a fellow food science friend has us both perusing the depths of Youtube to uncover the latest and greatest of burger videos. Yup! You read that right, upwards...
By Diana Maricruz Perez Santos With the beginning of each semester, I always think about what this new start will prepare me for. As a food geek I have spent many years in school: 5 of undergraduate, 2 of...
By: Emily Wolter My parents visited me at school a few weeks before summer came to an end and, one evening after dinner, we made our way to the Krispy Kreme donut shop for a sweet treat. Little did...