Plan Your Perfect New Year’s Party
Food / Online Issues

Plan Your Perfect New Year’s Party

If you’re having more than a few guests over for New Year’s Eve, try putting together a champagne bar. Though a stocked cocktail bar may sound daunting to manage, but if you have three variations on plain old champagne and a selection of fun flavored syrup or fruit purée, your guests can assemble their own drinks! A ton of champagne cocktail variations can be found compiled here. Continue reading

Food / Food as Science

Why aren’t we eating five meals a day?

Breakfast was nonexistent until the 17th century. The Romans only ate one extravagant meal a day, lounging and splurging on grapes and wine. In the late 1700s, breakfast consisting mainly of eggs, coffee, and tea emerged as a symbol of the wealthy.

When the Industrial Revolution implemented fixed working hours, laborers were forced to eat an energy packed meal before going into work. Eventually, people of all classes began eating a meal before their workdays to fuel themselves throughout the morning, giving rise to what we now know as breakfast. Continue reading

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When the farms come to the city: Columbia Greenmarket

Columbia Greenmarket Review ARTICLE AND PHOTOS BY AMELIA EDWARDS | FALL ISSUE 2014 With Thanksgiving right around the corner, we are always on the lookout for a touch of comfort that you can bring home or to your dorm room. With its proximity to Columbia University, the Greenmarket is the perfect place to visit for any … Continue reading

Following Broadway to China
Fall 2013 (Vol. 1, Online Issues) / Online Issues

Following Broadway to China

Following Broadway to China Aritcle By Andrea Zhu, Photos By Alex Nguyen | The Homecoming Issue Not many people would find a source of culinary enquiry in the garish and somewhat rundown Chinese food carts of Broadway.  Yet these carts seem to be endlessly popular, despite their fit-out.  Andrea Zhu asks why.    • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Walk … Continue reading

“Homecoming” Online Issue
Fall 2013 (Vol. 1 / News / Online Issues

“Homecoming” Online Issue

With summer now just a vestige of a memory heating up the recesses of our minds, we’ve reached a point at Culinarian where the semester is dragging on through a barrage of cold nights spent writing mid-semester papers. The change to darker days has been rippling through New York since the semester started back, creeping up behind us and leaving us searching for something of comfort to grasp onto and brace ourselves for hibernation. In true Culinarian style, of course, we turn to food. Continue reading