After my first breakup, I was in pieces. I was inconsolable– not that there was anyone around to console me. I had been inconveniently dumped in the days right before my older brother moved out of the house, my younger brother went off to summer camp, and my parents left for a month-long cross-country road …
Founded in 2010, Kim’s Grocery and Carryout has provided Oberlin students, staff, and community members with access to East Asian groceries. There are a bunch of frozen foods, seasonings, drinks, and ready-to-eat entrees of hot pot that remind Asian people of their nostalgic tastes. As the only Asian food market in this small town, Kim’s …
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As soon as I get out of the subway station, I notice a completely different mood of the park. My sense organs catch various stimuli. I see families with small children eating ice cream and young couples in love looking for a store. I hear their joyful voices. The sights, the sounds, and above all, …
Although it’s still nine o’clock in the morning, I feel terribly hot. The sun helps grow vegetables, but it just melts humans. Today, we are expecting a family of three coming from Tokyo to visit our farm. Since their three-year-old daughter had never experienced farming, we suggested that she could harvest red radish with us. …
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Photo of dough rising in warm location before being punched down and made into Grandma’s Rolls. Photo taken by author. Grandma’s Rolls are a delicacy when it comes to Thanksgiving dinner. People gorge themselves on the little, buttery pouches throughout the feast and late into the night. Then, if lucky, the rolls live onto the …
There were twenty minutes left on my Saturday morning shift and the girl started sobbing in the bathroom. Her friends rushed in after her, but the door was locked–she wanted to be alone. I must’ve looked confused because the two middle-school girls immediately began talking: They were walking around the shopping center when they ran …
Mitchells chocolate bunnies. Surrounded by chocolate bunnies, I couldn’t help but feel like I was 5 years old again. Jason Bean, one of the co-owners of Mitchell’s Chocolates, quickly ran through the history of the store noting that it was their 84th year in business–this made me feel even smaller. He gestured to the back …
This past summer, I joined Joey and his ragtag Friday crew at a warehouse in Prospect, OR where we produced hundreds of bottles of Joey’s Hot Sauce in eight hours of intense work. From washing chillies all the way to boxing the bottles, I got to see how their hot sauce gets made. Having grown …
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Photo of Oberlin students (left to right) Elijah, Bella, Lucy, Brooke, and Caterina forming a heart with their limbs during a lunch at Tank Co-op. Photo taken by Rhys Shepherd. There was snot, a sore throat, then the body aches and chills, but it was ultimately the two little pink lines on my covid test …
This table displays the food that my friends and I had on our first night in Merida at Museo de la Gastronomía Yucateca. I wasn’t too fond of the appetizer, a sliced tamal dish described below. Next to this dish is a platter containing four Yucatecan dishes and a cocktail with a grapefruit garnish. At …
