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started with a kickoff meal and provided carryout options during fasting. Students got a specially made bag packed up with overnight oats, vegan wraps with roasted veggies and hummus, fruit and energy bites made with seeds and dried fruit. Meals were also available for carryout if they chose. UC Berkeley’s Henning called the Eid- al Fitr event a “capstone celebration,” and the feast did a good job of solidifying this “reset year” of getting more in tune with campus celebrations and important days and weeks. The menu for Eid-al Fitr at UC Berkeley was brimming with rich, lively flavors. Entrees were hearty: braised lamb with dates, chickpea and vegetable tagine and chicken kabsa, Saudi-style spiced chicken simmered with tomatoes, onions and aromatics, finished in the oven and served with traditional kabsa spices (turmeric, coriander, black peppercorns, black cardamom pod, ginger, fennel seed and more). ‘IT SHOWS THAT WE CARE FOR OUR STUDENTS’ Last fall, East Village Dining Commons at Baylor University introduced halal chicken to the menu. This was a response after students had been asking for a long time for halal chicken. It turns out halal food isn’t exactly found on every corner in Waco, Texas. Baylor Eats, powered by Chartwells Higher Education, launched the chicken in a successful pilot program that grew into halal options abounding throughout the dining commons. When it was time for the Eid-al Fitr celebrations, Baylor Eats was ready to provide a meal to remember. The menu included chicken with spicy yogurt curry, spiced yellow basmati rice, spinach with peas and potatoes, crispy onion and potato pakora with cilantro- mint chutney, cold kachumber (Indian salad of finely chopped cucumbers, tomatoes, onions and spices). Sparkling mint lemonade and gulab jamun (fried milk bread soaked in rose cardamom syrup) rounded out and sweetened up
the menu. “It shows that we care for our students; it doesn’t matter what religion or ethnicity they are,” says Kaylynn Hartz, sous chef at Baylor Eats. “Especially during culturally significant holidays like Eid-al Fitr, we want them to feel loved. And we do that through food.”
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