Monday, April 21, 2014

Carolina's Fruit Pick of the Week: Cherimoyas


Photo credit: Felicia Friesema
Cherimoya: This fruit is one of my absolute favorites! It brings me back to my childhood memories of seeing its peculiar green (brownish when ripe) scales in Spanish markets and handing over my pesetas (now Euros) to the frutero and running home to cut it open and indulge in its custard-like white, creamy flesh. When it's perfectly ripe, it melts in your mouth.

Thursday, April 17, 2014

D1 Student-Athletes To Have Unlimited Meals and Snacks




The last thing you want to hear after a 3-hour tennis practice is that the cafeteria closes in 30 minutes. So by the time you finish practice, you have to skip stretching and risk having sore muscles, or worse, injuries, and run over to the campus cafeteria with a 20 pound racquet bag on your back

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Monday, April 7, 2014

Dance or Dine: Tao Downtown in New York City

Original painting by UK artist HUSH
I’ve always been somewhat disturbed by Koi fish. Maybe it’s the fact they look like overgrown goldfish that makes them seem grotesque. As I walked down the grand staircase, nearing the gigantesque Quan Yin Buddha with 24 protruding arms like a medusa