Des Moines Register, "Dorm Room Entertaining," by Erin
Crawford, excerpted:
Packing for college typically involves a new computer, multiple suitcases
of clothing and a fresh backpack. Maybe it's time to add a book to the mix.
Rather than sentence your kid to two bleak semesters of dorm food, consider
bestowing the gift of an age-appropriate cookbook that could save them from
delivery pizza and Ramen noodles.
Two new books, Cooking Outside the Pizza
Box: Easy Recipes for Today's
College Student and Teens Cook: How to Cook What You Want to Eat are
friendly, useful guides to building a kitchen, mastering cooking basics and
putting together some dishes that the modern teen would actually be interested
in eating.
Cooking Outside the Pizza Box is packed with how-to topics on cooking
technique and clean-up. A recipe for Sauteed Salmon with Lemon starts by telling
the student to turn on the exhaust fan or open a window. The recipes are as
basic as rice and as complicated as an Asian noodle salad, a quick recipe that
nonetheless involves some chopping and cooking. But best of all for dormitory
residents, most recipes are microwave-friendly.
