On the Menu

October 2, 2025

Getting zesty at the Goleta Lemon Festival 2025

By Pihu Jain

September 17, 2025

Tanghulu: the refreshing crunch you need this summer

By Pihu Jain

My friends and I often love to whip up some cool and cute desserts we’ve seen on the internet. We’ve tried the viral frozen Sprite gummies, frozen sour grapes and many more I can’t recall but they are taking up at ...

August 15, 2025

Green chili grilled cheese

By Pihu Jain

My biggest issue is spice. Specifically, the lack of it in so much of what I eat. My dad told me when I was younger, even to this day actually, that if I keep going down this path, I’ll burn off my taste buds and lose ...

August 10, 2025

Summertime Salad

By Piper Cheney

As summertime slowly comes to a close, it’s time to squeeze in all the best summer recipes. Nothing screams summer quite like a cold pasta salad. Making a pasta salad is easy, only requiring a little time and a lot...

July 25, 2025

Sama Sama Kitchen

By Piper Cheney

Next time your loved ones  visit you at school and offer to take you out to a nice dinner, drop everything and head to Sama Sama Kitchen. The Michelin Guide restaurant lives in the heart of downtown Santa Barbara on Sta...

July 10, 2025

Zucchini & Tofu Pasta

By Pihu Jain

After surviving the last grueling finals week of junior year, I came home eager to start my summer of rest and relaxation. Throughout the year, I had noticed that my cooking incorporated too many processed foods and not ...

July 7, 2025

Calling all East Coast Gauchos: El Presidente

By Piper Cheney

After living in Southern California for two years now, it is a dreaded task to fly home to the East Coast and find authentic Mexican food. Nothing remotely compares to the authenticity you can find in a family-run Santa ...

June 26, 2025

A short story about family recipes

By Anusha Singh

I am three years old in my Dadi’s (paternal grandma in Hindi) Los Angeles home, sitting on her kitchen’s marble countertop, using her recycled cookie tins as drums. I watch as she kneads the dough for her Fijian-styl...

May 15, 2025

The presidential menu

By Piper Cheney

The A.S. Food Bank is facing future uncertainty for the first time in its existence. Will the program — and others like it — still exist in four years?