• Pumpkin Hacks: How to handle these seasonal beasts

    It’s Halloween, so you should be thinking of carving a pumpkin! Here are some helpful tips for the process. Pumpkin carving may seem like a bit of an ordeal but as the weather gets colder, the nights draw in, and a decidedly spooky atmosphere fills the air, it may...
  • Impact Food: THiNK- Kiosk Review

    Kiosk is an independent café located in the THiNK building, situated just outside of Lace Market. The building itself is tucked away in the hidden cove of Cobden Chambers, a quirky alleyway speckled with thriving businesses. Once through the passage, I was faced with aesthetic pastel coloured shops and...
  • My Vegan Turning Point

    For most people, going vegan happens for one, or a combination of, three reasons; to save animals, to help the environment and for personal health. For me, growing up with vegetarian parents, I’d love to say that all three of these factors influenced me from a young age. In...
  • Pasta, Hello Dear Friend

    Crawling to the Fresher’s week finish line, a hangover on the horizon and Fresher’s flu not far behind it; the thought of a big meal is enough to wake the chunder dragon. However, it’s now time to stop classifying pasta and cheese as a ‘proper dinner’ and start driving...
  • Back to School Hangover Recipes

    Although it seems to have gone far too quickly, summer has vanished and welcome week is back. For many of us we’ve been here before, the late nights, headaches, excessive quantities of just about everything we shouldn’t consume in excess, and of course the hangovers. Whether this is your...
  • Down the ‘Free-from’ isle: life as a vegan coeliac

    I’m definitely in a rare bracket when it comes to dietary requirements. I’m a gluten-free vegan. Being vegan is a choice I make for ethical reasons, so I don’t feel irritated at facing the occasional minor obstacle to act upon my ethical beliefs. However, upon finding out from my...
  • Meet the team and their Breakfasts.

    To those who know me it’s never a shock to see me winding down for bed at a time before many students have even finished their pre-drinks. Whilst part of this is perhaps my tendency to act like an old man, the main reason is that I honestly live...