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[Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Paradiso | MIT Admissions

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Why do I cook? It’s a question that many of my friends have asked me, and one that I often ask myself. Usually, I default to my “origin story” of coming to the US for college, getting disappointed by MIT dining hall food and by the greater Boston food scene in general, and resolving to replicate my favorite cuisines from around the world. That, however, is not the full reason. During my sophomore year, I started my food Instagram account @thefrenchdormitory, not just to document my culinary journey, but also as an attempt to prove that my cooking can provide nourishment to others.⁠01 Junior year was a period of introspection, exploration, and experimentation. As I grappled with changes in my career and my personal life, I used cooking as a method to anchor myself to reality, as an attempt to rebuild the world around me in the spirit of “you are what you eat.” The results were rather macabre,⁠02 to say the least. Yet it is exactly this period of introspection that gave me new insights a

[Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Paradiso by CJ Q. '23 A selection of dishes that define my MIT dining experience, part 4 May 28, 2023 in How to Food Why do I cook? It’s a question that many of my friends have asked me, and one that I often ask myself. Usually, I default to my “origin story” of coming to the US for college, getting disappointed by MIT dining hall food and by the greater Boston food scene in general, and resolving to replicate my favorite cuisines from around the world. That, however, is not the full reason. During my sophomore year , I started my food Instagram account

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