Caroline Allen’s CCS Profiles and Features class in Spring 2007, now in blog form.

Tuesday, June 5, 2007

The ten best things to eat in Santa Barbara

A bowl of scrambled eggs and potatoes at the dining commons early in the morning when you’ve been working on a paper all night, and your friend sits down next to you – and you jump because you weren’t expecting anyone else to be awake, and you both laugh.

A cookiewich from the I.V. Drip, shared with a friend who let you pick the cookies and ice cream, and while you’re eating outside, a guy walking by says to his friends, “They know what’s up! Cookiewiches! Yeah!”

A bite stolen from the toasted bagel with cream cheese that you’re making for your boyfriend for breakfast in the afternoon at his apartment.

The bran muffins from Nicoletti’s after 9 pm because they’re 90 cents each and tasty and possibly healthy, and you’re hungry because you forgot to eat dinner and can’t stand going to late night at DLG again.

Half a bag of vegan chocolate-and-peanut-butter cookies bought from the IV food co-op, which you eat on the swings in the park on the afternoon of a bad day, and you almost give yourself a stomachache from too many cookies, but you feel better than you did before.

A tofu-ginger salad at the Sojourner Café, a mostly-vegetarian restaurant where your carnivorous friend has taken you, when you’re not sure whether he means it as a date until he kisses you afterward.

The rest of a bag of bulk candy bought impulsively from the UCen Corner Store that you offered to the prospective student who wandered into the CCS Computer Science computer lab, hoping that this leaves a good impression of CCS students on him.

A pizza full of cheese and broccoli and pesto from Woodstock’s at one in the morning, when there is no other good food available that your boyfriend likes – he disdains burritos in favor of piles of pineapple and Canadian bacon.

A veggie burger from Fresco in the La Cumbre plaza, anytime, because it is just that good.

The appetizer tapenade and bread at a restaurant that’s too expensive but you went to it anyway because you’ve been to all of downtown’s reasonably-priced restaurants far too many times.

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