This past week I finally decided to try something I have been dying to do for a couple months: going on a gluten-free diet. Gluten-free diets are a growing trend in the United States. Gluten is the protein that is responsible for keeping the elasticity in doughy products and is m...

Call me the Morgan Spurlock of the UMass crowd, only substitute McDonald’s with vegetables, and 30 days with seven. That’s right, for a whole week, I went vegan. In an attempt to broaden my culinary horizons, I thought it would be interesting to live my life as a veg...