Students are spicing it up from their dorms or their kitchens with ACBU’s cooking event and newly released cookbook.
On Oct. 29, ACBU hosted a cooking show via Zoom and put together a cookbook for Bradley’s campus, with suggestions from students, faculty, staff and the Peoria community.
ACBU compiled a list of 22 recipes that can be made in a kitchen or dorm, accommodating both in-person and online students. Recipes included blueberry muffins, ultimate mac and cheese and cookie-stuffed brownies, to name a few. Any recipe could be submitted, as long as it was alcohol-free.
“We just thought it was something different that we haven’t really seen on campus,” said Tynita King, a junior marketing major and event coordinator for ACBU.
The cookbook can be found and downloaded on ACBU’s website.
“Out of the cookbook, I just wanted students to be more engaged and just feel like this is more [of a] community and because a lot of people I know are at home right now, to have some more ideas to do while they are at home, some more, different recipes,” King said.
In addition to the cookbook, ACBU also put on a virtual event on Thursday at 7 p.m. that covered topics relating to health and food, along with a live-streamed cooking show hosted by Chef Egg, a professional chef, culinary instructor and host of “Chef Egg Live.”
The event included presentations from Danielle Glassmeyer from The Body Project speaking about body image and eating disorders and Emma Elasser, the Bradley campus dietician, talking about healthy eating and healthy dieting. Chef Egg finished up by cooking pasta carbonara.
“We feel like it is important too, especially now just with COVID, just you wanna take care of your body and be as healthy as possible,” King said.
