The Ithacan

Ithaca pizza on a budget

By Grace Condon, Contributing Writer • April 19, 2023

Pizza is an easy and enjoyable snack or meal for both your wallet and stomach, and Downtown Ithaca is full of convenient spots to stop.

Flipside: Marcell Fischler compares U.S. prices to Austria’s

By Luke Harbur, Multimedia Editor • September 11, 2016

"Flipside" asks Ithaca College international students to share what is more expensive and what is cheaper to buy in their native countries. This episode features senior Marcell Fischler from Austria.

Challenge 5: Thrown to a Halt or Stop

By Kylee Roberts, Blogger • April 10, 2016

Before I left for the SPJ conference on Friday morning, I had planned to write a piece on how being gluten free while traveling/at a conference where most of the food is provided is really difficult to obtain. It was definitely possible, but I was not prepared at all.

Pizza bagel disaster

By Lucy Walker • October 1, 2011

I love bagels. I love pizza. Logically, it would make sense that pizza bagels therefore became a favorite summer snack in my childhood. And moreover, it would not be unlikely, after years of paying others to spread tomato sauce and cheese on a bagel and put it in a toaster oven, that I would try…

Good ol’ cheese no longer

By Lucy Walker • September 30, 2011

This past spring for The Ithacan, I interviewed Scott Weiner, who started a pizza tour business in New York City. He only allows his tour participants to eat cheese slices, so they can judge properly between each establishment they visit. However, this professional pizza enthusiast named sausage, "good" mushrooms, and sometimes pepperoni as his favorite…

Where is the best pizza? (The ultimate culture-crossing cuisine)

By Lucy Walker • September 29, 2011

Who decided to follow the baby calf's actions and first milk a cow? What was going through the mind of the world's initial sailor as he jumped onto his barge and hoped it would float? Or, my personal favorite, how did that one great caveman or woman decide there might be some point in rubbing…