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Potluck Portables: Onion Tart

Potluck Portables (noun): Easy portable side dishes that can be made the night before, served at room temperature, and are versatile enough to complement any surrounding dish at a potluck buffet. ...

By Cara The Quarter-Life Cook on 6/03/09
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Contest: Win a Pepsi Throwback Pack

Another Friday, another giveaway. With the dog days of summer fast approaching, we're just waiting for that chilled-out, post-graduation vibe to wash over us in an awesome wave. Hopefully you're on the same page....

By Gradspot Dot Com on 5/29/09
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Kanye West to Live-Blog Commencement Address at University of Phoenix Online

The University of Phoenix Online's graduation ceremony is scheduled for July, but it looks like someone leaked the address to be delivered by this year's commencement blogger: Mr. Kanye West. Read it exclusively on Gradspot.com....

By Gradspot Dot Com on 5/21/09
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Summer Travel Tips

When the economy and job market go down the tubes, there are two camps on traveling. One says you'd be absolutely crazy to splurge on hotels and air travel—grab your savings and bunker down in the house until the tide turns. But the other is a little more opportunistic: everything is on sale in a recession, the dollar is strong, and it's not like that job is coming anytime soon anyway....

By Christopher Schonberger on 5/21/09
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Spinach-Pie Quesadillas

Cara the Quarter-Life Cook joins the "Recipe of the Week" team from Big Girls, Small Kitchen, a food and recipe guide for twenty-something cooks looking for user-friendly, affordable ways to navigate their kitchens. ...

By Cara The Quarter-Life Cook on 5/21/09
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Contest: Win a Signature Mini 2.0 USB Drive!

If you thought safe data storage was important in college, just wait until you're out in the "real world." Instead of backing up your term papers and "Best of" playlists, you suddenly find you've got files floating around in the ether that are literally priceless—like your "novel," a Word document titled "My 5-Year Plan," and the proprietary expense reports your boss asked you to guard with your...

By Gradspot Dot Com on 5/15/09
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Read This Now: David Foster Wallace's 2005 Commencement Speech

Until all the press came out about its recent publication as a paperback, we had never read the speech David Foster Wallace delivered at Kenyon College in 20...

By Gradspot Dot Com on 5/14/09
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Chickpea Burgers with Mint Raita

Phoebe the Quarter-Life Cook joins the "Recipe of the Week" team from Big Girls, Small Kitchen, a food and recipe guide for twenty-something cooks looking for user-friendly, affordable ways to navigate their kitchens. ...

By Phoebe The Quarter-Life Cook on 5/13/09
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One Flu Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Our intrepid Mexico correspondent reports live from the eye of the swine flu storm. Has isolation and paranoia driven him to madness? Or was he already insane? You be the judge... Is it safe to come out yet?...

By Tom Wiseman on 5/12/09
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Fish Night: Cod with Cherry Tomatoes

Back in my days as a fellow at the NB Whaling Museum, I ate a simple meal with Klaus Bartlemus, the world's leading expert on whaling. Klaus was also an expert on eating odd foods. He'd consumed the eye of a sturgeon and a whole small bird. He offered to cook us dinner, and to my surprise offered a very simple dish... roast cod with cherry tomatoes. ...

By Nick Schonberger on 5/07/09
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