Anyone Can Cook

Amusing title, Anyone Can Cook... What's even more amusing is that Gusteau actually seems to believe it.

I, on the other hand, take cooking seriously. And, no, I don't think anyone can do it.

- Anton Ego, Disney-Pixar's 2007 Ratatouille

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When it comes to food, college students get a bum rap. The words "college food" conjure images of hastily thrown together sandwiches, boxed macaroni and cheese, and half-squashed bags of chips with salsa. Not exactly the haute cuisine that the characters in Ratatouille aspire to, in other words.

We, the writers and contributors to this blog, are part of the small (but growing!) percentage of college students who don't subsist on packaged pizzas and ramen noodles after we move away from the loving reach of our mothers' and fathers' spatulas.

We've taken it upon ourselves to extend our repetoire far above the freezer, as it were, and we're hoping that sharing our stories, our recipes and our experiences here will help you, whether you are actually a college student struggling with dorm life or someone at home who just wants an easy meal on a Friday afternoon. Between us we've cooked on three different continents in kitchens large and small, working with a myriad of ingrediants for a variety of palates and getting help from people at all kinds of skill levels in the kitchen.

But perhaps most importantly, we're college students, and we're telling you that if we can do it, so can you.