Food

How time flies when you’re given loads of free food and drink.  They certainly know how to do hospitality here at YDS.  All the food has been rather splendid but my favourite was the pizza topped with bacon and mashed potato.  Yes, that’s right.  Bacon and mashed potato.  Absolutely scrumptious.

As you might expect at a University there are many hotly contested theories which are defended vigorously by their various proponents.  The most bitter dispute here is where to get the best pizzas.  Two of the main contenders are Modern Apizza and Bar.  So far my vote goes to Bar, home of the aforementioned bacon and mashed potato pizza.

The number of free food events has diminished since the orientation week but there are still ways and means to stuff oneself stupid for free should one so desire.

Plus there’s always the option to eat out which we’ve done a few times as well: had a California Burger at Archie Moore’s; sushi platter followed by crispy lemon sea scallops (quite possibly the best scallops EVA!!!) at Kudeta; Vitello Saltimbocca at Caffé Bravo; BLT at The Playwright and Steak Quesadilla at Black Bear Saloon.

For what is a comparatively small area New Haven has a huge number of places to eat with cuisine from all over the globe.  In addition to American food (bar, BBQ, light, new, short-order, southern, soul, steakhouses and traditional) there’s Chinese, Cuban, Eritrean, Ethiopian, French, Greek, Indian, Italian, Jamaican, Japanese, Korean, Malaysian, Mediterranean, Mexican, Middle Eastern, Nuevo Latino, Puerto Rican, South American, Spanish, Swedish and Thai.  And that’s just giving you broad brushstrokes.

I would love to be able to try them all but I suspect that may not be possible in the time we have here.  However, you can help.  For a small donation to my PayPal account I will be prepared to sample the delights of this masticatory multiverse on a regular basis.

Of course not every meal is had away from our apartment.  We did our first online shop in America a couple of days ago and now have a kitchen well stocked with cupcakes, cookies, Rolling Rock Pale Ale, mac ‘n’ cheese and peanut butter cup ice cream.

Disaster nearly struck as we forgot to order new cereal.  Fortunately I was able to pick up some Apple Jacks (as recommended by the lovely, bubbly Jenny) to replace the nearly depleted Lucky Charms.  Apple Jacks look like Fruit Loops but only come in orange (cinnamon) and green (apple).  I suspect that there may be no natural ingredients used in the production process.

Our American Culinary Experience has so far been very pleasurable and I have no doubt that it will continue to be so.  Now, if I could just track down some twinkies…