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Other great pizza (and pasta) can be had at Amorina on Vanderbilt. I've also become a big dorky fan of the Way Station on Washington Ave - Dr. Who fans will appreciate the perfect replica of the tardis (it's the bathroom, and it's bigger on the inside!) and the Galifreyan cocktail menu, but they also make a mean Manhattan with real, booze-preserved cherries that they source locally. I'd also second @KateN on Al Di La - I think it's the best restaurant in the north slope by far.

Girl & the Goat!

Keith, I think there's another option here. You say that your roommates don't want to pay for things they won't eat... but aren't they expecting you to pay for things that YOU won't eat? That doesn't seem very community-minded! I feel like they need to be reminded that the point of living cooperatively is not to force everyone you live with to be exactly like you. Anyway, I would suggest asking your roommates to try, for one week, letting you buy the foods you want to eat and COOK (with an eye towards economy) while they buy what they want and see if you really do ratchet up the price unfairly. Because I highly doubt that you would.

It can definitely be cheaper to cook for yourself rather than to rely on packaged/processed food, especially if you're talking about frozen meals and boxed cereal - those can be really pricey!!

If your roommates are at all decent people, I don't see how they couldn't at least try it for one lousy week. And if they are just selfish trolls with horrible taste in food: take heart. Everyone has at least one awful college roommate experience and always lives to tell the tale.

I would write a long essay about how deeply I hate this woman, but Amanda Hesser skewered her so beautifully I don't need to: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/01/dining/test-kitchen-homemade-or-semi-a-bake-off.html?pagewanted=1

But she's so *southern* and *down to earth*! If she's charging $9.99 for a box full of 60% empty space and 40% flour, sugar, and sodium benzoate, then land sakes, there must be a good reason for it!

What about the corn eaten by the animals you consume? If you aren't eating pasture-raised/grass-fed meat and poultry, you're still essentially eating corn.

Maybe it's splitting hairs, but animals raised on corn produce meat that is less nutritious, higher in fat, and lower in good fats. Corn syrup isn't the only evil product that comes from our cheap supply of this plant...

I was there! It was such a great event.

My boyfriend and I loved this. We're making it again tonight, but we're going to add some sauteed mushrooms to cut the "fishiness" a little bit. And I didn't bother boning the sardines. Actually, I didn't even bother chopping them too finely - just broke them up with a spoon while they cooked.

sripraphai!

As a cheese-eating vegetarian, this is something I definitely think about. My real issue with cheese, though, is the treatment of dairy cows throughout their lives. I have a bigger problem with industrial dairy operations than with small farmers who leave their cows on pasture and slaughter bull calves/adult steer to sell as beef and veal after they've led happy, healthy lives outdoors.

Cows are intelligent, complicated animals, and at most dairies they are kept chained by the neck in a barn 365 days a year, miserable and covered in manure. If you are a vegetarian because of animal rights/ethical issues, you should be eating as much pastured, (100%) grass-fed cheese as possible, in my opinion.

I suppose I've somewhat dodged your question here, but I strongly agree that, unless you are vegetarian simply for health reasons or something, people who are trying to eat ethically need to consider all the implications of their food choices.

A Bobolink Dairy raw milk original - Jean Louis. Tangy, crumbly, moist, delish.