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Vol. CLIV, Issue 6
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Chantal and Shane Valentine answer questions about food culture, eating habits on Whitman campus

Allison Work November 17, 2011
The “State of Food in America" was addressed Wednesday, Nov. 9 as Chantal '98 and Shane Valentine visited campus to speak about their baby cuisine cookbook and the problem with food in the United States today. The Pioneer had the opportunity to speak with the Valentines before their lecture, and hear more about their book and what they think Whitman can do within the larger food system.
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Food for thought: Group stresses sustainability

Dylan Tull October 27, 2011
The Real Food Challenge is an organization that attempts to address the lack of information and general knowledge about the impact of everyday food choices. Without demanding that students put down their meat, the program is designed to get them to think about that piece of meat and know exactly where it comes from and what effect they are having on the world by eating it. That being said,

Numbers in the news

Shelly Le October 27, 2011
Numbers in the news is a weekly feature highlighting numbers and statistics of interest to college students.

Enjoy Walla Walla eats over Family Weekend

Ellie Newell October 20, 2011
Food critic Ellie Newell gives the scoop on Family Weekend dining options for all budgets and tastes.
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Bad to the Bone: A dining hall drinking game

caricortez October 13, 2011

Complaining about Bon Appétit (or as they call it at Lewis and Clark, "The Bone") is an age-old pastime at Whitman, going back many, many centuries. But what people need to realize is that it's all...

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Camping cuisine for intrepid Whitties

Ellie Newell September 29, 2011
Ellie Newell delivers her secrets for eating well in the great outdoors!

Bon Appétit’s “Stories from the Field” encourages diologue among students

Molly Johanson November 4, 2010
Bon Appetit West Coast Fellow Vera Chang came to talk about what she has seen while touring west coast farms and colleges.
Minor problems dont keep Saffron from offering solid, if untraditional Mediterranean fare

Minor problems don’t keep Saffron from offering solid, if untraditional Mediterranean fare

Becquer Medak-Seguin March 1, 2010
Critiques aside, my date and I enjoyed our visit to Saffron. The menu is focused and delivers, albeit sometimes untraditionally, many of the wonderful flavors that make up that amorphous genre of cuisine many call Mediterranean.
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Top 5 french fries in Walla Walla

C.J. Wisler November 24, 2009
Late night studying leads to late night cravings, but if those cravings seek french fries, your search might be more difficult. Here are our picks to help.
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Delicious Halloween recipes that look like food, not eyeballs

contributor October 29, 2009
I have four major phobias: organ music, dying alone, Renaissance faires and foods that look like anything other than food. As a child, I could never understand how people enjoy those little candies that looked like hamburgers. Even fruit-shaped fruit snacks bothered me. Needless to say, Halloween can be a frightening time for someone like me and not because of scary stories and the haunted corn maze. I am flabbergasted by the delight some people take in meatballs made to look like eyeballs. Or cookies in the shape of weird bugs. Food magazines this time of year are relentless in their offerings of “spooky" or “creepy" menu items. The instructions for such recipes can be especially terrifying.
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Family dining in downtown Walla Walla

kristencoverdale October 22, 2009
Gathering for dinner is an important ritual for many families. Eating together is a time to unwind and reconnect after school or work. For those with overwhelmingly full schedules, family dinner might be the only time each day that everyone can sit down together. For the newest members of the Whitman community, Family Weekend will be first time most of them have seen their parents or siblings since the semester began. First-year Kelly Peterson expressed her anticipation. “I'm really excited my parents are coming this weekend. I miss being able to hear about everyone's day, family dinner is so important to me . . . We're all going out to dinner!"
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