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My Cooking Love Affair: The Beginning Of A Tasty Friendship

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at IU chapter.

A wise man once said “Bam!”
 
Ever since I was a little girl, my grandma and mother have raised me to love food. It’s the Italian blood I guess. It probably helped that I watched every episode of Emeril Lagasse on Food Network.
 
However, I’ve never had my own kitchen until now. This year, I’m finally free of the “who even knows what this actually is” food in the dorm and living in my first apartment. I’ve been told that I don’t cook like a college student. Ratatouille, fettuccini alfredo, apple cake, parmesan chicken fingers don’t go on the table for most students, I guess. Please throw that freezer meal away, unless it is an emergency case! 

 
My cooking love affair has only just begun (my boyfriend doesn’t seem to mind) and I started blogging and documenting my adventures. I try a couple recipes each week and show you how easy it is!
 
I even share the ugly truth. Check out my complete and utter failure at trying to make Hollandaise sauce or my attempt to not scream while trying to pull giblets out of a chicken. I have figured out that the key to overcoming a crisis in the kitchen is having a sense of humor.
 
Food brings people together and I truly believe that it also feeds the souls.
 
Bon Appétit
Chef Maggie

Check out more blog posts at http://www.mycookingloveaffair.com/.

Alyssa Goldman is a junior at Indiana University majoring in journalism and gender studies. Alyssa aspires to be an editor at a women’s magazine writing about women’s issues and feminism. Alyssa has served as city & state editor and special publications editor for the Indiana Daily Student, IU’s award-winning student newspaper. She has also interned at Chicago Parent magazine, the IU Office of University Communications and Today’s Chicago Woman magazine. Currently, she is interning at Bloom, a city magazine in Bloomington, Ind., and loves being a Campus Correspondent for HC! In her spare time, Alyssa enjoys watching The Bad Girls Club, The Jersey Shore and The Real Housewives (of any city); listening to Lady Gaga; drinking decaf skinny vanilla soy lattes from Starbucks; reading magazines; and shopping and eating with her girls on IU’s infamous Kirkwood Avenue.