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essential life skills // SALAD MAKING
in case of emergency, read quickly.
Now that you're in college, there are no more homemade dinners waiting for you after a long day of school. Eating out all the time is expensive, and cooking a full meal is time-consuming. So what's one to do? The easy and healthy solution is to put together a salad because it doesn't take long to prepare and makes a healthy evening meal.
There are four components to making a good salad, says Thomas Holland, manager at Ingredient, 947 Massachusetts St. First, you have to pick any kind of lettuce to serve as a base. Then, you add some kind of cheese, some kind of fruit and some other vegetable. Adding meat or tofu is also an option if you want to get some protein. "The fun thing is finding a combination that's
Photo illustration by Patrick De Oliveira
Chop, chop. Making salads is a quick, easy way to fill up and stay healthy. A good salad has four key components — lettuce, cheese, fruit (or vegetable) and protein.
new and different," Holland savs.
Making the dressing may sound intimidating, but Holland says most stores have a good selection. If you want to make your own, an easy and tasty recipe is to mix three parts olive oil with one part balsamic vinegar and then add some seasoning, Holland says.
So next time you think about calling in that pizza, just grab some fresh greens and toss together a well-seasoned salad.
// PATRICK DE OLIVEIRA
get some culture // FLAMENCO DANCING
it's not all about fast food and beer pong.
A guitarist plays while a row of male singers and a lone woman sit in chairs, rhythmically clapping their hands — palmas — to the 12-count beat. One of the men begins passionately singing in Spanish. Slowly, the female soloist rises and begins to tap her feet lightening fast to the beat.
"She's like a percussionist in dialogue with everyone. When she is moving, she is interpreting his lyrics," says Michelle Hayes, professor of dance, of the famous flamenco dancer in the video, Eva La Yerbabuena.
Hayes, who teaches the dance as a course at the University and at the Lawrence Arts Center every semester, says she is not nearly as talented as Yerbabuena, even though she has studied flamenco for 18 years in the U.S. and its country of origin, Spain.
Perfecting just the posture and arm and hand movements took years for Elizabeth Villalobos, Mexicali, Mexico, graduate student. However, Villalobos says she would have excelled at dancing the flamenco long ago if she had always had Hayes as her teacher.
If you'd rather look first and then learn, Noche Flamenca, a famous contemporary flamenco dance troupe, will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Lied Center. Hayes will also perform the flamenco the following
Thursday and Friday at the same time and place as part of the University Dance Company's fall concert.
Although learning to dance the flamenco well takes most dancers a decade, it's clear by the look in Hayes' eyes that learning the difficult dance is worth the time. "For me, it's the perfect fusion of music and dance," she says.
// FRANCESCA CHAMBERS
Photo by Francesca Chambers
Favorite stance: Elizabeth Villobos, Mexicali,
Mexico, graduate student, has studied flamenco, a
traditional, graceful Spanish dance, for years.
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