DEVOUR IN HUSKER COUNTRY
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Loeffel Meat Shoppe Drop football brats on the barbecue in support of the animal science program when you buy from Loeffel Meat Shoppe, located in the Animal Science Complex on East Campus. The variety of meat products — from shanks, to chops, to steaks — are primarily prepared and processed by university students, with all proceeds going back into animal sciencerelated instruction and programming.
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Dear Old Nebraska Brew Raise a glass to your alma mater. The Nebraska Alumni Association and Zipline Brewing Company have collaborated to bring you the easy-drinking American lager themed after our beloved fight song Dear Old Nebraska U. It’s on draft and in stores this fall. Proceeds from every case sold will help support alumni engagement programs.
ShakesFEAR at the Haunted Temple Guests venture into a library to uncover a long-lost Shakespeare manuscript, but a cast of infamous characters stand in their way. From the Nebraska Repertory Theatre comes a scary, immersive performance experience on campus in late October.
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Mary Ellen’s Food for the Soul The popular food truck often found serving the campus now has a brick-and-mortar restaurant in south Lincoln. Owners Charles and Lasunya Phillips have followed their passion project honoring Charles’ mother, the namesake, to its natural expansion. Patrons enjoy catfish, brisket and lots of Southern comfort food.
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Shel-Bee’s Honey Shelby Kittle’s bees are hard at work cooking up sticky sweetness for your slice of toast. The senior agricultural education major has kept bees and sold products for years, but is now making her honey dreams flourish with help from Nebraska’s Engler Agribusiness Entrepreneurship Program. Order her honey products at shelbeeshoney.com.
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The Fishermen Associate Professor of English Chigozie Obioma’s debut novel explores the almost mythic childhoods of four brothers in 1990s small-town Nigeria. When the boys go fishing on the forbidden river and meet the local prophetic madman, their Cain and Abel-like story begins.
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