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By: A Stanford Physics Student in Berkeley » Blog Archive » Grad Student Gourmet

Mon, 14 Aug 2006 07:55:29 +0000

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By: Friday Femmes Fatales No 41 - Philobiblon

Friday Femmes Fatales No 41 - Philobiblon — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 21:53:19 +0000

[…] Also in the “that takes me back” category, JoAnne on Cosmic Variance assembles various graduate student recipes. Which reminds me I haven’t seen a picture of one of my equivalent brews - an enormous pot of hopeless overcooked pasta that had turned, for some reason, a really odd shade of pink. Cooking one thing and eating it for a week was my standard behaviour then … […]

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 08:29:29 +0000

There’s a persistent myth at Stanford about an unfortunate (stupid?) grad student who ended up in the hospital with a bizarre smattering of bruises and rashes covering his entire body. At first the young doctors were unable to diagnose the illness, so they called on a more experienced clinician. After some thought, the wise old doctor asked the grad student what his typical day was like, specifically what he ate for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. “Hot dogs,” the student replied. “For which meal?” the doctor asked. “All of them.” According to legend, this was the first diagnosed case of scurvy (vitamin-C deficiency) in the history of Stanford Hospital. The treatment: “Go home and eat an orange.”

By: Harv

Harv — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 23:48:57 +0000

Sam, I do recommend it, though my fiance is only a gourmet chef on the side - he’s a theoretical astrophysicist by day.

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 04:43:12 +0000

I eat one raw bell pepper with each meal along with one jalapeno. I even sneak them with into restaurants, cut up nicely in a zip loc. Being a celiac, pizza is out of the question along with any bread whatsoever. Yet, from what I am reading here in these posts does appear to fit what most grad students do throw done their gut…Pizza wins by a mile.

By: Plotinus or Bust! » Graduate School Gormet

Plotinus or Bust! » Graduate School Gormet — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 21:27:50 +0000

[…] Via Cosmic Variance,Â a listing of (less-than) phenomenal foods eaten by some of the smartest people in the world who now work for Fermi Lab doing particle physics work.Â The original article is linked here, which will take you to the Symmetry Magazine website. […]

By: Astro Grad

Astro Grad — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 19:51:57 +0000

I feel amazed that no one mentioned frozen dinners or cans of soup! A guy in my class didn’d even have cutlery or plates, he just heated the stuff in the microwave and ate it with plastic spoons. I on the other hand, definitely had utensils but ate frozen meals 10 meals out of 14. The other 4 meals I would do some cooking but very basic stuff, like fried rice & some veggies.

By: Sam Gralla

Sam Gralla — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 16:11:30 +0000

Harv,

Wow–I’ve got to find me a gourmet chef to live with!

-Sam

By: robert

robert — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:30:11 +0000

Good to hear that pig’s feet are still sustaining post graduates. Many years ago, the good wife and I would purchase a foot or two from the local butcher. Boiled up, this provided meat and jelly sufficient to make pork pies (this is the UK after all) that sustained us for days. And what did we drink? A bizarre brew made by boiling up dandelion roots and lemons, adding sugar and fermenting. Excellent , though the bottles did tend to explode in the summer.

By: JoAnne

JoAnne — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 04:34:51 +0000

fh: I am stuck on frozen pizzas to this day, actually they were too expensive for me as a grad student, but I eat them in large quantities now! In fact, I just had one tonight - a CPK (CA Pizza Kitchens) portobello mushroom pizza which I embellished with proscuitto, goat cheese, and fresh tomatoes. Yum! I’m a sucker for pizza…