The Daily Meal just released their second-annual list of the 60 Best Colleges for Food in America for 2013. They conducted a study that examined the most outstanding campus dining at nearly all of the approximately 2,000 four-year colleges across America.
Here are some of the fun and interesting take aways from the study:
• Occidental College engages their students in yearly events like “Oxy Iron Chef” and holiday theme nights.
• Bowdoin’s dining hall blog and their dining hall food magazine, The Bowdoin Gourmet, are designed to constantly keep students in the loop.
• Emory University offers their students cooking classes on topics like the best wine and meal pairings and mixology 101.
• Kennesaw State harvests their own honey, mushrooms and herbs from campus gardens.
• Washington University in St. Louis allows students to customize and order campus food online.
Here are The Daily Meal’s rankings for the top 10 best college for food:
1. Bowdoin College, Maine
2. Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri
3. Virginia Tech, Virginia
4. Emory University, Georgia
5. UCLA, California
6. Cornell University, New York
7. UMass Amherst, Massachusetts
8. Kennesaw State University, Georgia
9. Tufts University, Massachusetts
10. Yale University, Connecticut
To view the list in its entirety, click HERE, at The Daily Meal. Are you attending a college on the list? Getting hungry just thinking about it?
> To read more about what to expect from on-campus food choices, check out these articles on the NextStepU.com website:
• Taste what’s next
• Eating well on a student budget
• How to eat well without starving your wallet
