Left to right, Brian Lahr (Geneva NY), me, and Joe Mesmer (Rochester, NY), in game against Hobart College’s B team, fall 1983. We played fall ball games then behind Herkimer High School
Just days into the start of my freshmen year at Herkimer County Community College, it became clear that some of my fellow lacrosse recruits had few cooking skills. In fact some turned to instant box recipes to rescue them from hunger. For example, teammate Andy Kaiser from Baldwin, Long Island, told me that he and his roommate “lived off of five for a dollar boxes of macaroni and cheese. We would add green peas and cut up hot dogs to the mac and cheese and that what we ate for days on end,” said Andy. We were all away from home and cooking for ourselves for the first time. Some teammates spent more time looking for bargain happy hours at bars and taverns than they did shopping for food. Growing up both my parents had jobs and my brothers and I all developed both cooking skills and a love of cooking. Others had little or no cooking or shopping acumen. What little that served in the college cafeteria cost too much so most the students learned to cook by trail and fire. Teammate Chris Acerno however came to Herk with serious cooking skills. I will pay homage to Chris and his cooking in my next post.
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