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My is Meaghan Van Dyke and I’m the host of Heavy is the Hand That Holds the Spoon, a look into the Mary Washington college dining experience. Welcome to our first and only episode.
For many students, college is their first experience of true Independence and the first time that they are relied upon to make meals for themselves. The question remains, how did students actually use the kitchens that are given to them in their University accommodations? To find out, we interviewed Eagle Landing residents and sophomore University of Washington, Riley Munford
I’m here with Mary Washington sophomore Riley Munford, who is a first-time apartment resident. Riley, would you mind telling me a little bit about what you like to cook in the apartment and where did you learn to cook that?
“Tonight for my friends, I am making a recipe that my aunt actually got in Europe when she was traveling abroad, and I think my family took took it and adapted it to an American sense of the meal. But I learned to cook it like growing up in my house with my mom, and we have this whole process of like all of these specific steps that we have to take. I’ve always had people tell me that there’s a more efficient way to do it but there’s like just a tradition of the specific, like way to make it that makes it homey.” “Yes!”
For University officials, understanding students eating habits is an important way to make sure that all students are accounted for and cared for. This has been Meaghan Van Dyke and this is been the first and only episode of Heavy is the Hand That Holds the Spoon, a look the Mary Washington dining experience.
Behind the Scenes
About
This video follows the experience of learning to cook in a college environment. In the podcast specifically, I interview my friend Riley, a sophomore at UMW and a first time apartment resident. While Riley talks about her experience cooking a very yummy tomato basil pasta meal, the video features me trying my best to recreate the meal under Riley’s instruction. To learn more about helpful cooking tips for beginners, visit this Kroger page on ways to improve your cooking methods. For a recipe specifically similar to Riley’s tomato pasta recipe, check out this tomato and garlic pasta recipe!
Editing and Recording
To record this video, I rented a tripod from the HCC and used the camera on my phone. The tripod with my phone proved to be the most efficient recording method with the best quality. I chose Canva for my video editing software, as I could both easily create my video’s logo through Canva and arrange and crop the videos faster. Finally, YouTube allowed me to edit my captions and control how I shared my video more clearly, prompting me to chose the streaming service for my project.
Attributions
While I recorded the videos myself, the graphic I created for the video’s logo was developed using the “Modern Minimalist Skincare Blog” template on Canva. A special thank you goes out to my roommates for helping me set up and eat the meal I prepared in this video, and for Riley for allowing me to interview her/film her welcoming me into the apartment 🙂