<p>Dorm</a> food gets schooled -- latimes.com</p>
<p>Excerpt:</p>
<p>"Duck confit, pancetta-wrapped quail, butter-poached lobster tails, fried zucchini blossoms -- not exactly how most collegians are expecting to dine when they head back to their school dormitories this fall. But those are some of the dishes that may again delight the denizens of Norris Hall at Occidental College in Eagle Rock come this semester...."</p>
<p>But are they growing their own food? These students are:</p>
<p>[The</a> New School Lunch - Relish](<a href=“http://www.relishmag.com/article/35245.html]The”>http://www.relishmag.com/article/35245.html)</p>
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When Abby Benson started college three years ago, she didn’t know anything about growing her own food. Now a senior at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minn., she helps lead STOGROW (short for “St. Olaf Garden Research and Organic Works”), the student-run, on-campus farm that supplies local, organic ingredients to the college cafeteria. She’s also now a self-described “food snob.”</p>
<p>“I judge every vegetable that I put in my mouth, as it never compares to the produce from STOGROW,” Benson says. “I have learned to structure a diet around eating locally and sustainably.”</p>
<p>She’s not the only one. Because the college’s food service vendor, Bon App</p>
<p>Gourmet doesn’t even begin to describe the offerings at Connecticut College:
(don’t follow the link if you are squeamish)</p>
<p>[Connecticut</a> College : News : Edible insects! Students taste creepy crawly delicacies](<a href=“http://aspen.conncoll.edu/news/5182.cfm]Connecticut”>http://aspen.conncoll.edu/news/5182.cfm)</p>
<p>And I was upset that there was nothing but Japanese offered yesterday and Indian today. I couldn’t eat any of that stuff. XD</p>