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Dorm Living: Get the Room - and the Experience - You Want at College

When high school students think of college life, images of parties and new people and late-night pizza instantly come to mind. Only upon moving in does a freshman realize the buzz-killing downside to the blissful freedom: a 12 x 12 dorm room often shared with a stranger. With Knack Dorm Living, Casey Lewis—herself a college senior at the University of Missouri—provides the guide she searched for, in vain, in her freshman year. She offers invaluable tips on what to pack and what to buy, what to expect, decorating, clothes, and organizing time and money. This is an ideal high school graduation gift for high school seniors—both girls and guys—set to move away from home.

Nutrition: Eating the colors of the rainbow - and we don't mean skittles...

Sample Pages:     Table Of Contents        Nutrition        Diet        Health        Room Layout

About the Author

Casey Lewis is a college student by day, freelance writer by night. Despite growing up in a Midwestern town so small you literally can’t find Vogue for sale, she got her start covering teen fashion for About.com at age thirteen, then went on to create her own style website the following year. She is currently pursuing a journalism degree at the University of Missouri and spends every spare minute reading and writing about youth trends. When her head seems to be buried in college textbooks, you can probably find a magazine slipped into the binding. As a college student and frequent intern, Casey Lewis has lived in as many dorms as years of college she’s completed.

Paperback: 256 pages         Publisher: Knack March-2010        ISBN: 978-1-59921-776-5

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College Cookbook: Dorm Eating and Apartment Feasting

When students start their first year at college, they're faced with a wide array of new experiences: newfound freedom, long study hours, and seemingly endless food choices from campus cafeterias and late-night fast food runs. The schedule changes, added stress, and bad eating habits often lead to the addition of the dreaded Freshman Fifteen.

Enter the Knack College Cookbook, a book that doesn't quite guarantee weight loss, but is jam-packed with enough healthy, budget-friendly choices to keep the pounds at bay. The first three chapters--known as the "gear" chapters--will provide information on food staples, necessary utensils, and basic cooking techniques.  A section on nutrition, portion control, and healthy substitutions will help students balance their diets and curb bad habits.  Full-color photos accompany step-by-step 350 easy-to-make recipes and variations directed at both the dorm dwellers and the full kitchen apartment dwellers, this book will have something for college students for all four years.

About the Author

David Poran has spent the last 20 years in the culinary world.  Most notably as executive chef for NFL headquarters and as culinary Director for Balduccis Markets.  He currently has his own culinary consultation and food brokerage business in Washington DC.  He spends his free time exploring markets, foraging for wild mushrooms, and fly-fishing wherever there is water.

Paperback: 256 pages         Publisher: Knack March-2010        ISBN: 978-1-59921-865-6