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Thankful for Poor Dorm Food!
 
The year is 1974. My first semester at West Virginia University in Morgantown WV. Not a culinary destination to be sure. And as a new first-year college student, we were all required to stay in a dormitory for our entire first year. Meals were included in the fees and being a typically poor college student, (and before I got a job at the Holiday Inn serving dinners and cocktails), having meals in the dorm cafeteria was a given. Plus, I could then ogle the WVU football team who also stayed in one of the dorms and ate there as well. Eye candy to be sure! But, even that didn’t satiate my need to put up with really crappy fare.
 
I’d grown up with your basic Irish or German-type (50s-60s American style)food: meat, potatoes, salad, canned vegetables, dessert, milk, tomato soup out of a can, grilled cheese sandwiches…you get the drift. My mom was not known for any particular dish as her specialty and I never had a yen for cooking so I was in charge of making the salad and setting the table. It’s not as if I was used to eating foods of the world and had a sophisticated palette. ... more

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