Nina Timofeyeva

April 24, 2025

Sustainable eating

By Nina Timofeyeva

This Earth Day, try implementing some of these practices into your everyday life to help protect our Earth.

April 17, 2025

Dubai chocolate: the dessert taking the world by storm

By Nina Timofeyeva

If you’ve been on any food-related social media accounts on platforms like TikTok or Instagram, you may have seen the viral phenomenon of Dubai chocolate creeping into your feed (or taking over completely, for some of ...

April 15, 2025

Recovering like a pro: food, drinks and remedies after a party weekend

By Nina Timofeyeva

Whether you’re still recovering from Deltopia or know you’re going to be taking on similar adventures in the future, use this article to help guide your recovery to get back on your feet more quickly and easily. 

February 27, 2025

Much ado about mushrooms

By Nina Timofeyeva

While mushrooms may seem intimidating and strange with their unusual shapes, colors and textures, I encourage you to give them a try. You just might be pleasantly surprised.

February 20, 2025

Brighten up your winters with mandarin cake

By Nina Timofeyeva

Brighten up your winters with mandarin cake  As the chill of winter settles in, nature offers a burst of sunshine in the form of citrus. While much of the produce aisle leans toward hearty root vegetables and winter gre...

February 13, 2025

Dinner for Two: A Valentine’s Day Cooking Adventure

By Nina Timofeyeva

Why not celebrate this holiday with your significant other by having a romantic dinner you cooked together? 

February 10, 2025

Ai Cha: bringing new options to IV

By Nina Timofeyeva

You might have heard of the robots taking over Isla Vista. Or maybe you’ve walked past the Ai Cha storefront and personally seen the claw-machine-looking gadget encased in a pink box machine. In either case, these seem...

February 1, 2025

When ice cream gets involved in politics

By Nina Timofeyeva

The famed ice cream company Ben & Jerry’s began posting videos and announcements supporting social justice, environmental and other causes in the days surrounding the inauguration, Martin Luther King Jr. Day an...

January 16, 2025

The Scoop: Recent Food News

By Nina Timofeyeva

In case you haven’t been keeping up, here is the top food-related news so far in this new year.

December 29, 2024

2024 in Cookies

By Nina Timofeyeva

While holiday cookies are often shaped like Christmas trees, presents, snowflakes and other holiday-themed imagery, this year I encourage you to explore other silly shapes to reflect on what a year 2024 has been.

November 18, 2024

Panino: Your Next Best Sandwich

By Nina Timofeyeva

On a warm, sunny autumn afternoon this weekend, I made my way through downtown Santa Barbara towards my long-awaited destination. I had heard stories from some friends that around this area exists a sandwich shop by the ...

October 24, 2024

Celebrate October’s Food Holidays in I.V.

By Nina Timofeyeva

October is a fruitful month when it comes to food: we eat squashes and pumpkins, Halloween candy, drink Pumpkin Spice Lattes and cook cozy comfort meals such as soups. October has certainly understood the assignment and ...

October 17, 2024

Maria’s Tacos: bringing authentic Mexican flavors and community to Isla Vista

By Nina Timofeyeva

Since opening in June 2023, Maria’s Tacos has been serving authentic and affordable dishes hailing from Mexico to locals and visitors of Isla Vista. The owner, Maria Mayo, shared insights about the restaurant’s origi...

October 3, 2024

AI in the kitchen

By Nina Timofeyeva

ChatGPT is known for its abilities to give you (mostly) accurate information about nearly everything or to write emails and papers that you don’t want to do yourself. But apart from functioning as your personal secreta...

September 19, 2024

The (Non)Dairy Decision

By Nina Timofeyeva

You’ve entered a cafe for your morning coffee or tea, determined to change your regular order and try something new and spontaneous. But the options overwhelm you like waves in the ocean, and you realize that perhaps y...

August 30, 2024

Your Next Best Meal is at Poke Theory

By Nina Timofeyeva

In Isla Vista, the most popular restaurants include Woodstock’s, Freebirds, Wingstop and more, which are located in prime, eye-catching spots. Perhaps you’re familiar with these spots already, or maybe there’s a sp...