This morning I read an article about how college students are basically just really tall 4-year-olds. Nowhere is this truer and more apparent for me personally than in my culinary abilities.
My parents ~allege~ that when I was 3 (and apparently left unattended), I broke into the kitchen to make brunch. Enlisting the help of our overweight boxer, I carefully selected all the essentials: cheese, sliced cucumber, eggs, Old Bay (We're from Maryland, OK?). The only problem was I couldn't reach the stove to cook it. After some pensive inner reflection, I had a moment of clarity: "The floor in front of the fridge gets kind of hot. That's basically the same thing." So 3-year-old me proceeded to break and smear a carton-worth of eggs all over the mat in front of the refrigerator. I delicately folded in the cucumbers and crab seasoning, and off I went to show my parents exactly what their child prodigy was capable of.
My culinary skills have changed little to none since the Egg Incident of 1998, but luckily, a local chef offered some cooking advice for college students, and it doesn't include making a cucumber omelet on your parents' floor.
- Chapel Hill police and the State Bureau of Investigation are again asking for information from the public about the investigation into Faith Hedgepeth's homicide. Hedgepeth was found dead in her apartment three years ago Monday.
- Pope Francis decided to invoke a Holy Year years ahead of schedule to allow people to be absolved of sins related to abortion — aka Pope Francis basically still does whatever he wants.
- UNC cut its water use by 60 percent since 2000 — and suddenly I wish I had split utilities with UNC this summer.
- More than 2,000 individuals, including Deez Nuts and Ronald Reagan's Ghost, have filed for presidential candidacy in the 2016 election — and they say snake people are politically apathetic.
A bunch of runners puked Krispy Kreme this weekend, and it earned $5,000 for UNC's cancer center. Participants in this year's Dozen Doughnut Dash ran in a grueling four-mile race in which they had to stop halfway through and down a dozen glazed doughnuts. I, as well, ate 12 Krispy Kreme doughnuts on Saturday, and I briskly walked to Elmo's once.
The executive chef at Il Palio sat down with us to discuss lasagna and how to cook on a college budget. Teddy Diggs makes a mean lasagna — it's literally 50 layers. And in the words of our digital production assistant Brielle, "As long as 25 of them are cheese, I'm there."
UNC faculty and administration need to reflect more diversity. In recent years, the University has increased underrepresented minorities on faculty — but it's still about as white as last year's Oscars nominees.
Ever wonder what it's like to balance running a tattoo parlor with raising two kids? If you listen to Megan Thayer, "It's awesome and crazy and hectic and fun.” The owner of Chapel Hill's Ascension Tattoo shared how she got to opening her own shop — starting with learning to tattoo on bananas.
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