| Dorm Cooking 101
By all accounts, college dorm food has gotten much better in recent years. But what about those times you sleep through brunch? Miss lunch because you were hanging out at the library scoping prospective dates? Or maybe you were even studying so hard you forgot to look at the clock and the cafeteria closed. We can't speak to your school's rules on in-room cooking devices (or how strictly you wish to observe them) but we can offer some decent quickie dining ideas. Though be warned, like wearing the same sweats to class that you slept in, or using the same plastic cup to drink beer or brush you teeth, some are ideas only a student could love. Ramen noodles A college student's best friend, they're cheap, easy and you can spruce them up with just about anything, says Toni Patrick, author of "101 Things To Do With Ramen Noodles" (Gibbs Smith, 2005).
Take a sneak peek at Damon's new Savannah cookbook
As some of you know, for the last year I have been off on an adventure. Not one that has taken me very far - at least not physically farther than my kitchen. I've been researching and writing a new cookbook about Savannah. It began with an overly ambitious plan - a comprehensive book that would include not only every aspect of contemporary Savannah cooking as we know it, but also lost recipes from the past and secrets from the dozens of ethnic communities that have left an impression on our community and its cookery. But I had only one year and a small budget. About halfway through, I faced the realization that I'd have to do what all my predecessors had done before me: incorporate Savannah's diversity, both its past and its present, but it would be more intimate than encyclopedic.
Empowerment Academy helps high school dropouts
It's not your typical high school classroom. Instead, 12 bright-eyed teenagers huddle around carpenter Jon Rykse. With circular saw in hand, he is spraying a cloud of sawdust into the air as he cuts through a thick board. "Watch closely now," Rykse tells his students. But these teens, all of them high school dropouts, are already watching every move he makes. Welcome to an educational program called the Empowerment Academy. Started six years ago by John George, president of the mighty Motor City Blightbusters, Detroit's Empowerment Academy takes kids who've dropped out of school and offers them the opportunity to earn their GED and learn a skilled trade, such as building construction or Internet Web design. The program is free and open to all high school dropouts, age 16 to 19.
School and College News
PEPPER PIKE - Michelle Christine Robinson, daughter of John (Patrick) and Marsha Robinson, Marion, and Don and Susan Paroda, Cleveland, graduated May 18 from Ursuline College with a bachelor of science in nursing. She received a four-year scholarship from John Marshall High School in Cleveland in 2002. She finished her fifth year and took her State Board on July 10. .
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