Tonight, John Jay Dining Hall presented the last special dinner of the semester, a holiday feast that will either send students home eager for better eats or willing to give John Jay another chance. As the dust settles on my first semester at Columbia University and John Jay wraps up another season of mediocre, institutional food, I feel qualified to pose a question worthy of any Literature Humanities paper: if John Jay served this food every night, would students count down the meals left on their dining plans? (more…)
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Halloween Dinner Is Horrifying
With a veil of fog obscuring the entrance to John Jay Dining Hall and pre-recorded screams emanating from a boombox, the lack of emergency personnel at the Halloween Theme Dinner seems astonishing. Unfortunately, not even Columbia’s finest student EMTs could successfully resuscitate this meal from a much-deserved demise. (more…)
The Salsa Lacks a Little Spice at Sabor Dinner
When John Jay dining hall gets dressed up with flags from Spanish speaking nations, centerpieces of chips, and a set of excessively large speakers, any student worth his salsa knows that a theme meal awaits. Sabor and Grupo Quisqueyano are sponsoring a Latin American dinner tonight, complete with blaring music and food that tries to keep up with the dance tunes. Sadly, many of the dishes are outstepped by the show. (more…)
A Locavore’s Paradise at John Jay
As a general rule, I hate the implicit elitism and self-righteousness of the term “locavore.” Meaning one who dines on foods produced within a close radius of one’s home, the word “locavore” seem all the rage in a superficially social justice conscious world. Indeed, the “A Taste of New York Local Dinner” at John Jay Dining Hall appears to epitomize this (albeit shallow) focus on sustainable development and farming. What else makes this night different from all other nights at John Jay (which, to establish a baseline for those unfamiliar, typically puts out uninspired cafeteria style dishes)? For one, various signs plastered around the buffet indicate the local sources of the constituent ingredients in each dish. Nevertheless, the main difference is that although the quality of produce and meat seems exponentially better, the overall palatability of the food still ranges wildly from questionable to excellent. (more…)
John Jay Special Night
It’s Local Food night in John Jay. While the exact menu is not divulged, one should expect more expensive, locally-sourced things like peaches, nectarines, vegetables, etc. that John Jay can’t normally afford to serve. Perhaps desserts with locally sourced cream and milk?
Find out: John Jay Dining Hall, 5-8 p.m.
