Photo by Sherry Yang Ever since I was young, I associated family with food. My mom, dad and I would eat at the dinner table every night and talk about how our day went. My extended family would gather at my grandmother’s house and eye the many dishes she spent all day preparing. Food always […]
Currents Magazine Spring 2018
Delivery Service Provides Healthy Meals with a Cost
Photos by Sherry Yang Convenience comes with a cost. Whether it’s one-click ordering with Amazon or the self-driving Tesla, society finds new (and often expensive) ways to do the least amount of work to satisfy daily needs, and this doesn’t stop at food. In this era of foodies, sliced bread is hardly innovative compared to […]
Half Cup of Culture, Three Cups of Community
Photos by Chad Jimenez and Terra Atwood Sugar, butter, flour, egg, cheese, rice. Dishes from various cultures may be made with different foods but they all have one central ingredient in common: community. “If I had to have one meal before I die I would choose this twice over,” senior Reed Williams said about his […]
Food, Filters and Photos: How Instagram Impacts the Way We Eat
“Do it for the ‘gram'” now applies to what we put in our bodies
Symbols in the Seder: The Passover Dinner
Art by Cassandra Stephenson Freedom. Slavery. Tradition. Family. Very few meals are centered around ideas that require thoughtful thinking and honoring ancient traditions. At the Seder Meal, these ideas are the reason why Jewish families gather. The Seder Meal is a tradition celebrated by people of the Jewish faith during Passover. The meal consists of […]
Freshly Picked Farmers Market Finds
Photos by Terra Atwood Termed “the sunshine state,” California is known for its multitude of farmers markets where fresh produce and other locally sourced goods come together to be sold year-round. For Malibu residents, farmers markets located in Malibu, Santa Monica and Calabasas are weekly establishments that display the best of what this local area […]
Food Sustainability: A Q&A with Professor Christopher Doran
Photo by Terra Atwood Sprinkled throughout Professor Christopher Doran’s office is: a statue of Saint Francis of Assisi, a bobblehead Jesus, and a Segway, on which he glides to and from work. A graduate of Pepperdine’s Natural Sciences Division and University of California Berkeley’s school of theology, Doran is ambidextrous in his discussions of ecology […]
‘Ethnic’ Food is Not a Trend
Art by Peau Porotesano In case you missed it, Filipino food is going to be the next big food trend. At least according to the headlines of countless magazine articles. “I predict, two years from now, Filipino food will be what we will have been talking about for six months … I think that’s going […]
Students Share their Eating Disorder Stories
Photos by Terra Atwood This isn’t about food. This isn’t about skin and bones. This is about stories and battles. Every eating disorder is a distinctive experience – these are the accounts of Pepperdine students who live with them every day. Mackie O’Malley, Freshman Freshman Mackie O’Malley ended up at Pepperdine because of her therapist. […]
