The third annual Laramie Flavor Festival took place last week in Laramie, showcasing a delightful array of dishes from around the world. More than 20 local restaurants participated in the event, each offering a unique taste of a different country’s culinary tradition. The event was hosted by more than 60 international volunteers representing over 40…
Recently over 10,000 pounds of potatoes were harvested and donated to hungry Wyoming families in the face of a growing epidemic of food insecurity nationally. The harvest was thanks to the efforts of the University of Wyoming’s James C. Hageman Sustainable Agriculture Research and Extension Center (SAREC) in partnership with the Cent$ible Nutrition Program (CNP)….
Michael Rotellini Mrotell1@uwyo.edu If you are reading this then you’re probably a lot like me- trying to live on a poor college student budget. Well, going on my third year at the university, I like to think I’ve picked up quite a few tricks that will help you survive on a dime and even save…
Jeremy Rowley Jrowley1@uwyo.edu For full-time students with a job in addition to all of their other responsibilities, the issue of food can quickly become a problem. Do you work more hours in order to afford more meals, or do you study more in order to maintain your GPA? While this is always be a problematic…
Hannah Robinson hwood3@uwyo.edu When Norman Frost is not studying for one of his business classes at the University of Wyoming, he can be found in his yellow food trailer in front of the Ranger bar or catering a local or campus event. After working in about every restaurant in Laramie, Frost decided to put his…
Skye Swoboda-Colberg began dumpster diving eight years ago when he was in high school and he continues the practice today as a UW graduate student. “I rode my bike to Safeway and there’s this alleyway out back, and one day I just kept going and noticed dumpsters and looked in and low and behold I…
Anyone who knows me, knows that I am not counter-culture, I am not hip, and I am most definitely not cool. By all accounts, I am a square, and by virtue of my squareness, I should be diametrically opposed to that little hippy food store downtown. But I, in all my squareness and boringness, can…
Appetites: Sometimes even the best Food Network show is too hard for people to follow. As such, when nothing short of a step-by-step video will do, this application may be the perfect tool to fill some people’s culinary holes. Appetites comes with hundreds of recipes paired with videos shot from the chef’s perspective. Using this…
Gov. Matt Mead signed into law the Food Freedom Act yesterday, legalizing the sale of homegrown and homemade foods and freeing producers and consumers from government regulation. This includes regulation of unpasteurized milk, which was responsible for 81 disease outbreaks across the nation between 2007 and 2012. “The number of outbreaks in the United States…
Some of you have your own methods, like energy drinks, coffee and good ol’ fashion napping. Those are for cowards. Don’t you just love the feeling of staying up all night working on a paper you forgot about, each hair on your head bulging in different directions and you’re so stressed that even someone saying…
Humans like sugar. In this, we are not alone: the labyrinthine web of interconnected chemical reactions that support life are centered on the breakdown of varied sugars. Bacteria like sugar; slime molds like sugar; birds, bees, and most anything that walks, hops, swims or crawls likes sugar. The majority of sugar on Earth comes from…
There are many things that preoccupy students, and no, I’m not talking about the staples of sex, drugs and rock and roll. I’m taking about something that may even rank higher up than doing homework or flirting with that cute special someone in biology: eating. Sometimes, it can be difficult to find the time to…
