From 12:00 until 2:00, Columbia Coalition Against the War is willing to buy your petition signature with both normal cupcakes (the smallest type of cakes) and vegan cupcakes. The petition asks CU to divest from military contractors involved in the Iraq War. Those investments have probably paid off well so far, but now, says CCAW, […]

Restaurant A–the most charming mom-and-pop, organic, French-Caribbean place that literally takes four years for freshman to find–looked long-gone with its facade painted and a real estate agent’s sign hanging like a great blue shroud.  Bwog wanted to cry and pound its tiny fists against the cold concrete.  But appearances deceived, and we’re so glad they […]

This is a big weekend for students selling food. The day before “Feel Good” debuts their grilled charity cheese, three freshmen are going public with their own culinary venture, in an event they call “C is for Crunk, B is for Breakfast.” (Unfortunately for observant Jews, “YK is for Yom Kippur, F is for Fasting,” […]

At 4 pm Sunday, JJ’s place is the launch spot for a student group with a name that cuts to the heart of student charity – the “Feel Good” project, through which grilled cheese sandwiches are sold in order to raise money for world hunger. It is a known fact that eating grilled cheese sandwiches, […]

The National Review, which in Spec-speak is like the “Chris Shrugged” of right-wing rags, (“William F. Buckley Shrugged”?), has anointed Chris Kulawik as the paradigm of all that’s right with the current state of discourse about the Middle East. The problem, natch, is Fulbright-winning, Ph.D. holding professor Juan Cole, who is just ruining everything with […]

    New York is a city with lots of people and most of them walk on the street, and everybody needs food, so there are a lot of street carts selling food. Midtown has the award-winning German sausage cart named “Hallo Berlin”, Washington Square has the vegetarian-but-miraculously-still-tasty dosa cart, and East 116th has a great […]

What’s larger than a breadbox, brightly colored, and totally delicious (some might warn mysteriously so?)

212, Ferris, and your other favorite Lerner eats are open. They might have opened a day or two ago, but Bwog is still excited about the unlimited-topping salads in 212. 

Bwog’s very own Frank Bruni, Michael Snyder, dishes (see what I did there?) about Morningside Height’s buffet (and here?) of restaurants and markets. Tom’s The famous Seinfeld spot is “the quintessential diner,” replete with “mediocre food” unfriendly service, and plastic-upholstered banquettes.  Steer clear of the “questionable breakfast foods” and go straight for the milkshakes.  Hint: […]

Westside Market! Your adorable Powerpoint presentation that’s playing on loop above the salad station has left Bwog smitten. You don’t need to convince us of your charms, that fresh fruit bar is enough. Kisses Forever, Bwog 

Bwog freelancer Steven Thomas introduces us to a departure from the campus culinary norm. Located just off of LaSalle on Broadway, two-month-old China de Puebla serves up an intruiguing array of Chinese-Mexican fusion, or as they put it: “Mexican food with a Chinese accent.”  I’m pretty sure that the young restaurant’s business will pick up […]

More in food news: Chipotle is arriving at the end of the month, and they’re courting Columbia students in a big way. The new shop’s advance team let Bwog know that on Wednesday, June 27, they’re holding a kickoff event to raise money for Columbia athletics–from 11:00 AM to 8:00 PM, five bucks will get […]

Editor emerita Anna Corke, of Cooking with Bwog fame, gives us a glance into life behind the kitchen doors. Here is what I do: toss salad greens with olive oil, lemon juice, salt, pepper, diced tomatoes, and crumbled feta; garnish with mixed olives, sliced cucumber, peppercinis, cucumber yogurt; plate with toasted pita, lamb on the […]

After three long years, the Westside Supermarket reopened its doors last Friday. When it closed in 2004, disgruntled shoppers covered the store closing sign with graffiti that related stories of loves lost and found in the market’s produce aisles and threats to move away from the neighborhood as a result of being left without a […]

While Bwog suspected that 2.75 for a grease-bathed slice of pizza the size of a John Jay single was simply too good to be true, we’re happy that some parity has been restored to the Roti Roll-Koronet rivalry (a slice and an Aloo Masala Frankie are both $3.00), and delighted to see capitalism punishing the […]