UBC Food Society

The school year may be over, but our foodie adventures haven’t ended! Join me, Praveena, on this four part series as we document my gastronomic exploits in Charleston, South Carolina, and Toronto, Ontario! Note that all names have been changed to Pokémon names to ensure privacy. I was originally headed to Toronto for my mother’s [...]

It has been a great year for the members of the Food Heavens Around the World because we had the opportunity to test a lot of different cuisines, some familiar and some not. Our last event of the school year was a real test- African. At first we wanted to go to Axum Ethiopian but [...]

  I couldn’t have asked for a sunnier day in a photo scavenger hunt. This year’s food society event was held over the Easter weekend at the Lonsdale Quay in North Vancouver.  About thirty five participants showed up to meet new friends, take photos, win prizes, and eat food. Seven teams were supplied with a [...]

To celebrate the holiday of Purim, CWJ got together to cook up some Hamentashen! Hamentashen are triangular cookies with some sort of yummy filling. They’re supposed to represent the pointy ears of the bad guy in the story of Purim, Hamen. We experimented with lots of different fillings! We had: Yummy date mixture, Apricot jam [...]

So I’m finally getting around to posting from our yummy Latkes event! Latkes are basically potato pancakes (NOT HASHBROWNS!) which we eat during the holiday of Hanukkah. The story of Hanukkah revolves around the miracle of oil, so it’s a fantastic excuse to eat lots of oily food! WHOO! After my little demonstration, everyone tried [...]