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Cooking for friends: An apology, served hot

“It’s probably a bit bland,” my friend said tentatively in the first week of living out of college, just after they had put down a delicious plate of fish and rice.

Lifestyle Eva Zielke -

Beyond the Rad Cam: My quest to visit all 22 Bodleian Libraries

Between March 2025 and October 2026, I visited all 22 Bodleian libraries, from the reading rooms of central Oxford to the obscure medical libraries.

Lifestyle Jade Kosche -

The art of reaching out to old friends

Coming to university, I realised that the stable, effortless reliability of my friends from home was, all of a sudden, precarious and difficult to maintain.

Lifestyle Ilya Rosenbaum -

The only thing missing from this bean was chocolate

If there were a smell I could capture, bottle up, and treasure forever, it would be the toasty and heartening smell of cacao roasting in the morning.

Lifestyle Minnie Mertz -

Life Divided: bops

Eloise Heath and Charles Pidgeon provide contrasting literary criticisms of bops

Recipe: caprese mac and cheese

Sam Purnell puts an Italian twist on an American classic

Review: The Standard

Emily Beswick discovers Jericho’s best-kept secret

Worthwhile resolutions

Emma Leech encourages students to make realistic and useful resolutions

Letter from abroad: Belgium

Emily Dillistone considers linguistic anomalies in Francophone Belgium

Marxist pigeons: a short guide to Oxford’s city wildlife

Jamie Onslow suggests that students turn off Planet Earth II to experience the real one

Recipe: an alternative pizza experience

Sam Purnell suggests a guilt-free version of a student classic

Food diary: why we all should cook more

Kanak Shah suggests trying a new approach to food in 2017

Review: George Street Social

Emily Beswick visits a haven for price-savvy food fanatics

PTSD rewrote me

Izzy Smith reflects on the way in which PTSD affects her life and her identity

Cocktail of the week: raspberry basil highball

Sam Purnell devises a refreshing cocktail delicious with or without alcohol

Letter from abroad: Vienna

Rebecca Morton explores how Vienna has taken her outside the ‘Oxford Bubble’

Blind Date: Andrew and Alice

Alice and Andrew bond over Wahoo, a capella, and Tesco's bagels

Unearthing the past: in search of stasis, simplicity and Mrs Simpson

Daniel Curtis reflects on school memories and how disorientating Oxford can appear at first

Life divided: collections

Nicola Dwornik describes two different takes on the termly ‘collections’ experience

The Oxford interview: a helper’s view

Ramani Chandramohan sees the process from the other side of the desk a year on from her own interview

Holidays: Cherwell Visuals competition

Whether you spent the vac away or at home, send your holiday art to [email protected] for a chance to see it in print

Restaurant review: Mildred’s

Amy Booth reviews a refreshingly impressive vegetarian restaurant in London

2016: the year in food

Emily Beswick and Sam Purnell pick their five most unforgettable food moments

Recipe: as American as apple pie

Julianna Lewis reflects on two Christmases on either side of the Atlantic

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