COOK LIKE A REAL PERSON

Spoon University - a food movement and global community of young influencers that was founded at Northwestern University by Mackenzie Barth and Sarah Adler - has created a fun, bright, energetic cookbook perfect for any young novice in the kitchen.

Comprised of a network of thousands of contributors at hundreds of college campuses all over the world, Spoon U empowers students to write, photograph, create videos and throw events, all of which are featured on the Spoon U website that is geared toward the millennial food community of 2.8 million!
Although started in the U.S., Spoon U has gone global and continues to grow abroad, with new chapters now in nine countries. They have a strong social media presence and a solid audience, particularly on their Facebook page. Their website not only includes recipes and how to's, but also posts on things like what to eat abroad in Spain, the best restaurants in Paris, 25 foods you NEED to eat in Florence and much more.

Spoon University's content is a mix of videos in the style of Buzzfeed's Tasty videos, young-adult friendly recipes, and contributor-created articles about food and health. Their debut cookbook offers what the emerging foodie is looking for: healthy, cheap, easy, and good recipes. With a wry, knowing, funny voice, the approach is fresh, innovative, and highly visual. The book is organized around the 8 ingredients young adults are most likely to have in their kitchen--eggs, chicken, pasta, potatoes, toast, grains, greens, and bananas--and each of the 100 recipes is structured so that you can cook any recipe in the book with no prior experience. Clever recipes like Empty Peanut Butter Jar Noodles and Leftover Vodka Pasta Sauce, tips for sprucing up your meal for Instagram, easy ways to transform overripe bananas and an entire chapter devoted to toast speak to the real lives of young adults.

They have an incredibly engaged following of young adults, both online and on the 300+ college campuses where they have a network of 11,000 student contributors who create content for the website and run Spoon University clubs, holding monthly local events like dinner parties.