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Daniel Shular eats a salad bowl from Chipotle. Shular says that Chipotle reminds him of graduate school, cheap meals and veganism.
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The first pizza place Mariana Labbate went with her first college friends was Shakespeare’s. Labbate, a stranger to the city and the University of Missouri, was advised to go the restaurant while attending an event of the International Welcome week. Nowadays, every time she goes to Shakespeare’s she remembers her first week in Missouri.
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Adam Cole loves CJ’s barbecue sauce wing. Cole has tried chicken from many places in Columbia, however he has never had wings with the same amount of sauce and crunchiness as these have, a perfect seasoning he says.
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Snacks from Lee’s Market give nostalgia to Ana Hosomi. When she was younger, Hosomi and her family would drive from her hometown, Limeira in the sate of Sao Paulo, Brazil, to the state capital with the same name. They would go to a traditional neighborhood called Liberdade, where the biggest Japanese community in Brazil resides, and buy these kinds of Japanese sweets to take home.
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Every time Adam Jackson eats penang curry from Chims Thai Kitchen he gets full before finishing. “Sometimes I feel homesick. This is probably the closest I can get to Indonesian rendang (curry) without bothering my family to ship me ingredients,” Jackson said. “I’d feel confidant putting mine up against any other.”
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Liv Paggiarino admires her tuna nigiri from Eat Well by Schnucks. Paggiarino says that their sushi is good enough to help her feel the nostalgia of going out for Japanese with her family.
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Ethan Weston enjoys his iced mocha from Columbia’s Ninth St. Starbucks, Weston says that he basically drinks it everyday. “I just don’t like coffee that much, and that doesn’t taste like coffee but still gives me the coffee energy.”
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Karen Kunzel says that Sunshine Sushi makes her remember going out for Japanese food with her family. The place at the University of Missouri student center has her favorite salmon and avocado sushi, which for her is quick to pick up before going to work.
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Marco Postigo Storel prepares to bite a Lakota Coffee donut. Postigo Storel loves to drink coffee, he loves to grind and make his homemade coffee. However, when he is not at home he goes to Lakota for a good latte.
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Idyllic
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marco postigo storel
Updated: 11/24/20
Going to college is a big step in the life of a teenager. Having to make new friends, roommates, professors, starting classes, finding a job and all those rapid changes for freshmen. However, the biggest adaptation students are demanded is the food. Most people have to leave their home food traditions in their first year at the University of Missouri, and have their meals at the dining halls, where the variety of food is not great. The hunt for the best restaurants in Columbia starts after your first months at school, where you can get those nostalgic, idyllic, traditional and tasteful meals. Searching for something that gives you pleasures that you had before is what everyone wants. This is a personal essay on how college students search for their idyllic food in Columbia, Missouri.
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