
This week I explored some healthy options in lieu of fatty alternatives for Super Bowl Sunday. If you’re looking for some athletic inspiration, these zucchini chips and sweet potato fries should do the trick.

Never mind waiting for autumn to actually start– it doesn’t take much for us to begin thinking about cooking stews and other things inappropriate for what Santa Cruz calls cooler weather.

Re-creating one of my favorite food court meals brings back good memories and leaves my stomach grateful for this delicious stir-fry recipe.

As family dynamics change and communication lines are threatened, food culture serves as a way to link grandmother and granddaughter across generations.

With the costs of food and a UC education rising, many students are having an increasingly hard time affording food, forcing them to find alternative methods of attaining meals. Some get crafty, while others utilize on- and off-campus resources.

Fueled by social media, pop-up restaurants and food trucks are becoming increasingly popular in the Bay Area and urban areas around the country.

Food blogging has reached a new height in the past few years, thanks largely to the sharp rise in social networking. This practice has captured gluttonous appetites across the nation and inspired people to develop newfound obsessions with chronicling what they eat.

PETA2 collaborated with Banana Slugs for Animals on their national Million Sticker Mania campaign, helping spread awareness about eating meat and supporting vegan and vegetarian students at more than 100 colleges nationwide, including UCSC.

The Monterey Bay fosters a growing movement toward organics and away from corporate factory farms. Local agriculture specialists sat on a panel last week and discussed trends and predictions regarding food production and dissolution.

Factory farming in the United States has turned into a process of churning out animals like products, even when they are still alive. They are tortured and killed painfully. Factory farm meat spreads diseases and negatively affects the environment, but how can we make a difference?
