College Cooks: Simple ingredients, easy recipes, good tasting food
This book and the philosophy behind it serves as a great wake up call to America's youth. No longer is it acceptable to fuel your body and feed your brain with ramen noodles, mac and cheese and Totino's pizza rolls. Along with easy to follow recipes, "College Cooks" provides basic insight into food shopping for beginners, how to budget and stretch that all important dollar, so that you don't have to sell your plasma like I did for extra beer money. It's unfortunate that a need for convenience and speed have usurped the desire for nourishment and enjoyment of real food. "College Cooks" helps students and novice cooks bridge the gap between convenience/cost and healthful eating. These guys have learned what all chefs know: that food preparation and cooking can be an enjoyable and interesting endeavor that brings people together to feed and nourish not only their bodies but their souls. Before the keg party, pre-party with a home cooked dinner party you make yourself with friends. There's no guarantee that by preparing and eating their recipe for Tortilla soup will bring up anyones grade point average, but I do guarantee that it's a whole lot tastier and healthier than cup o noodles. --Liz Moskow, Restaurant Critic for The Daily Camera, Boulder, CO