A special thanks to: Rebecca Fischer, Lara Sanders, and Patricia Trostle for their invaluable assistance throughout the entire cookbook writing process. To Dan Shannon, Joel Bartlett, Ryan Huling, Chris Garcia, and P.J. Smith for their guidance and input. To Becky Fenson, Amy Elizabeth, Heidi Parker, and Lindsay Pollard-Post for their amazing ability to capture the college voice. To Blake Simmons and Laura Brown for their organizational and research abilities. To Erin Nevius, Sara Appino, and Carrie Gellin at Sourcebooks, Inc., for their help in making this work come together. And to the following people for lending us their recipes, opinions, and taste buds in order to make this book come to life:
Claire Marlatt, Christine Doré, Rachel Owen, Jennifer Cierlitsky, Alka Chandna, David Perle, Kelly Respess, Paul Kercheval, Chris Holbein, Jenny Lou and Josh Browning, Sean Conner, Caleb Wheeldon, Michael Croland, Teresa Cooper, Christine Tynes, Sarah Pearson, Megan Hartman, Karen Porreca, Patti Tillotson, Meg Caskey, Kelli Provencio, Colleen Higgins, Roxanne Conwell, Jannette Patterson, Julian Carr, Desiree Acholla, Colleen Borst, Jessica Johnston, Jennifer Hurst, Melissa Kessler, Elizabeth O’Mara, Tracy Reiman, Liesel Wolff, Kim DeWester, Travis Poland, Laura Frisk, Kaci Fairbanks, Jenny Woods, Allison Liu, Jessica Jagmin, Carrie Ann Knauss, Katie Smith, Kim Terepka, Anita DeWester, Jessica Roland, Madalyn Grimm, Ashley Byrne, and Libby Simons.
Finally, a big thank you to Ingrid E. Newkirk for trusting us with this project, writing a rockin’ foreword, and submitting many, many recipes.