18th February 2024
Eve tries 5 days of cooking Nigella’s Recipe of the Day At the start of the year, I had 30,000 emails in my inbox. Since then, I have created a filter that deletes every email with “unsubscribe” in it (even the seemingly endless LinkedIn job alerts have relented). Now, only one subscription slips through: Nigella’s ...
18th February 2024
Writer Anne Van Hoose compares three steaks across Glasgow in a quest to find the best steak. It was a fateful night in the city of Washington D.C, in 2010. My mother, sister, and I wandered through the dark streets, searching for a bite to eat. There, across from a bank, we found heaven – ...
5th January 2024
The University of Glasgow students’ guide to the best West End meal deal The meal deal, the classic British lunch, a make-or-break decision in a friendship, or perhaps best known as the biggest casualty of the cost of living crisis. That main, snack and drink combination is a convenient, cheap way to grab some grub. ...
5th January 2024
Writer Maud Smulders tries planning her meals with ChatGPT for a week We are all familiar with the inevitable panic that arises when you come home from a day of sitting on the floor of the Learning Hub to a fridge that contains half a questionable-looking onion, a block of cheese, and a can of ...
5th January 2024
Café Go Go: the place to go? I don’t know where the notion that certain foods should only be able to grace our plates during breakfast originated, but personally, I think it’s utterly absurd, and it seems Café Go Go agrees. Whether I’m yearning for their delectable, sweet pancake stacks or a hearty Scottish breakfast, ...
5th January 2024
Can’t find a seat in the library? Here are the best cafes to study in around campus With the library getting busier every day, the reading room never having the heating on, and the Learning Hub seemingly devoid of plug sockets, it’s a great time to expand your study spots to somewhere outside of campus. ...
5th January 2024
Bank account looking as unhealthy as your fridge? A guide to reducing your food shop spend. Checking the balance on your banking app after Freshers’ week can come as a bit of a shock. The money you splashed on a Pint of Fun at Hive with your flatmates or on shopping sprees on Byres Road ...
5th January 2024
Bored with pesto? Writer Yang Yang Cao explores different ways this delicious sauce can be used. Pesto pasta, that universal student staple. However, it goes without saying that no one can handle eating it day in, day out and week after week. Fortunately this tasty Italian sauce (made from pine nuts, basil, parmesan, olive oil, ...
5th January 2024
Writer Frances Chorley shares her love for Big Tesco. Although there are many things I don’t miss about living in halls, Murano Street Student Village certainly had its upsides. Situated at a happy proximity to the Greggs outlet, and equidistant between two competing Lidls, it was a pretty good location for a first year student. ...
5th January 2024
A ranking of the best wines you can get for £6. During the great expanse of the university summer, I found myself on a middle-class holiday to (where else but) the south of France. Between the arduous tasks of eating prawns (crevettes, actually) and reading one page of my book a day, I went to ...
