Refectory food waste revealed
The Refectory has wasted nearly £50 worth of food every day for eight months, this newspaper can reveal. According to figures from a Freedom of Information request submitted by this newspaper, more than £11,000 worth of food may have been wasted over this period. In correspondence, the University also revealed that food waste is “not [...]
Sesame to close
Sesame, the Japanese food shop in the Union, is to close down. Students have expressed their dismay at the shop’s closure, with one condemning it as “an absolute travesty.” Second year student Hasell McCosh said, “It’s a huge shame; whenever I buy lunch, I always have something from there!” Union Affairs Officer, Antony Haddley, said: [...]
LS1 Interviews: foodie and former war writer, Bruce Palling
Currently a prolific food and wine blogger and a columnist for the Wall St Journal, Bruce Palling doesn’t think it is a contradiction that he started his career writing about wars and conflicts. A failed student facing jail for refusing to fight in Vietnam, aged 21, he made his first commentary on Western interventionism. Later, [...]
The Cookbook Review: Exploring China by Ken Hom and Ching-He Huang
I am not a proficient cook. It is with this thought that I discover that Ken Hom is not just some young upstart attempting to break into the British cookery scene with his Chinese recipes. He is in fact the famed culinary king of Chinese cuisine and has been known on these shores for [...]
Refectory under fire for food ‘monopoly’
9.11.12 Students are concerned they are losing money through the Refectory’s meal card system, Leeds Student has found. Students living on campus receive £9.70 to spend each week day and £5.80 at the weekends. Credit does not accumulate on the cards, meaning that if students fail to spend the full amount of money available, they [...]
The Cookbook Review: Virgin to Veteran by Sam Stern
*Like or Share this article on Facebook or Twitter to be in for a chance to win a free copy of the book* Ariadne Godwin continues The Cookbook Series this week with slightly different style – Sam Stern has gone the extra mile in turning himself from a student chef into a celebrity chef, but [...]
Budgeting Blunders
You know you’ve got a problem with money and budgeting when you decide to prioritise going out over buying food. Indeed, recently the prospect of Mission Thursdays is sounding so much more appealing than a trek to Saino’s, even if that does lead to hungry Fridays when you realise that you’ve got naught but mouldy [...]
The Cookbook Review: Kitchin Suppers by Tom Kitchin
*Share this article on Facebook or Twitter in order to enter a competition to win a copy of the book* Lucy Holden kicks off brand new feature The Cookbook Series with Tom Kitchin’s new publication Kitchin Suppers, proving students can cook like celebrity chefs too. Anyone who knows anything about cooking will know and love Tom Kitchin. His [...]
Graduate dining: Top Ten
Results are in, and we finally know what degrees we have, and how much we need to celebrate – a lot in the case of the around 60% of us receiving 2.1s or above. So where on earth are we going to do that? Particularly in a city that we supposedly no longer live in, [...]