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Khari and Shawn Parker smile for a photo in the Bloomberg Student Center's food hall.
Q+A
Connie's brings comfort food to new student center location
Published Sept 29, 2025
Baltimore-born co-owners Shawn and Khari Parker will serve their signature chicken, waffles, and a variety of other culinary offerings at JHU's new Bloomberg Student Center
Chef Jasmine Norton smiles for the camera while standing in her restaurant, the Urban Oyster.
Q+A
Local flavor comes to Bloomberg Student Center
Published Sept 22, 2025
Chef Jasmine Norton, a James Beard Award semifinalist and Baltimore native, will open a new food stall this fall on Homewood campus
A table full of single-serving koshary bowls
Coming soon
Student center food options finalized
Published July 14, 2025
Food stalls serving dishes from Egypt, China, Maryland, and beyond will open on Homewood campus this fall
Professional headshot of Lawrence Appel.
Research Matters
Finding the best recipe for health
Published April 1, 2025
For the past 25 years, Professor Lawrence Appel's DASH diet has helped patients lower their blood pressure and avoid heart disease
A smiling Tim Ma leans against a wall while wearing a kitchen apron.
Q+A
Chef Tim Ma is back for seconds
Published March 14, 2025
The new Hopkins Student Center will feature a sit-down restaurant, coffee shop, and Chinese-American food stall from acclaimed restaurateur and alum Tim Ma
Illustration of a woman roasting vegetables over a fire
Fact or fiction?
Experts take on top food myths
Published Spring 2023
Navigating today's conflicting nutrition advice can be confusing. Johns Hopkins Magazine turned to a panel of Hopkins experts for the truth—the science-backed, evidence-based, fact-checked truth—behind some common food myths. / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Overlaid on an American map are various types of food, including dumplings and sushi
Changing hearts, minds, and stomachs
Published Spring 2023
SAIS alumni Téa Ivanovic and Peter Schechter founded Immigrant Food to defend the vision of America as an immigrant nation / Johns Hopkins Magazine
The title page of 'What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking' by Abby Fisher
A legacy of Southern delicacies
Published Spring 2023
Johns Hopkins' Special Collections acquires first-edition copy of What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking, a cookbook believed to be only the second one authored by a Black woman in the United States / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Crazy Legs Conti sits in his apartment and leans toward the camera
Crazy Legs is still hungry
Published Spring 2023 Video
Competitive eater Crazy Legs Conti has yet to max out on gross out / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Liz Specht
Food for thought
Published Spring 2021
As the institute's director of science and technology, Liz Specht, Engr '09, helps identify gaps in research and funding to fuel innovations for new meat and dairy substitutes. / Johns Hopkins Magazine