PARENTS CONTRIBUTE TASTE OF HOME TO DINING HALLS

Associate Director of Dining Services Dave Chase with Bryn Mawr parents Candy Berlin, Tom Ekman and Hyla Vine

Jambalaya, curried couscous salad, spinach orzo with roasted red peppers and pine nuts, and a chocolate zucchini cake were on the menu at a reception honoring the winners of Bryn Mawr College Dining Services' (BMCDS) annual "Taste of Home" contest during Parents' Weekend. Those dishes will now enter the BMCDS cookbook, and home cooks Tom Ekman, Candy Berlin and Hyla Vine have taken home award plaques and $100 gift certificates for submitting the winning recipes.

Now in its fourth year, the Taste of Home program solicits recipes from the families of Bryn Mawr students in four categories: Entrée, Vegetarian Entrée, Side Dish and Dessert. Four finalists were selected in each category by Associate Director of Dining Services Dave Chase and a panel of cooks representing all of the College's dining halls. A panel of five staff members and four students then sampled the 16 dishes that made the finals.

The jambalaya recipe, which won the entrée category, was contributed by Ekman, the father of Diana Ekman '09; Berlin, the mother of Rebecca Kaufman '08, took both the vegetarian-entrée category and the side-dish category with her couscous salad and orzo, respectively; and Vine, the mother of Ilana Vine '09, submitted the chocolate zucchini cake that won the dessert category. The awards were made at a reception in the Dorothy Vernon Room on Saturday, Nov. 5. "There was a really good turnout of both students and parents who came and sampled the winning dishes," reports Dining Services student worker Kristina Copplin '06.

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