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Your Guide to Ames’ Groceries
Being in college is great. You get new freedoms and can make more of your own choices. If you want to go down to the dorm kitchen at 2 a.m. and try to make a pie with bacon as the main ingredient, no one is going to stop you. But where do you buy the bacon from?
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Restaurant Reveal
Have you heard of The Café? Dublin Bay? Or even Vesuvius? Last year at this time I certainly hadn’t! Being a transfer student, I was unaware of the great restaurants in the Ames area but was interested in giving them a try.
Fill Your Fridge: Dorm Style
Living in the dorms as a freshman is an entirely new experience. You have to do your own laundry, wash your own dishes and do your own grocery shopping.
Introducing: Conversations Oak Elm’s Dining Center
Conversations, the newly renovated dining center located in Oak Elm, is unique to the other dining centers on campus.
Must Eat: The Grove Café
The Grove Café, open with the same name since 1949 is a popular breakfast joint in downtown Ames, on Main Street. Although the restaurant has an extensive menu they are known mostly for one thing, their famous pancake.
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Apartment Transition: Food Tips
It’s the start of a new school semester and you are no longer living in the dorms. Not only is this a good way to become more independent, it also means cooking for yourself and not relaying on the dining centers to provide you with all of your meals. Here are a few tips on surviving in an apartment and making that transition.
Cheesecake Paradise
Cheesecake is one of the most popular desserts in the U.S., and definitely at The Cheesecake Factory, which has a selection of cheesecake flavors varying from Original to Kahlua Cocoa Coffee Cheesecake. This summer, while eating at The Cheesecake Factory with my family, I decided to try a new flavor of cheesecake.
A Taste of Spain
This summer, I studied in Spain and had the opportunity to try a variety of interesting new foods. However, there is one food experience I will never forget, the Manitas de Cerdo.
New: Mongolian Buffet in Ames
Buffets are always a great choice for a family because there is a lot of variety and usually everyone can find something they like.
What is that fruit?
While at a cousin’s bridal shower in Massachusetts this summer I came across a beautiful salad that contained mescaline lettuces, watermelon, and what we all thought was pineapple. But as soon as I took a bite of that bright yellow fruit, I was surprised to find it wasn’t pineapple but more of a melon.
