Food for Thought: A Two-Year Cooking Guide for Social Work Students

One of the most important parts of social work is building meaningful relationships, but if your most valued acquaintance is the person who delivers your carryout, then it’s time for a culinary reassessment! Food for Thought is the BSW and MSW student’s guide to preparing tasty and healthy food while still having time for family, friends, and-of course-studying. With weekly recipes submitted by more than fifty social work educators and planned out over the course of two 9-month academic years, you can be sure this cookbook will fit into your life.

Good food, well prepared, can foster health, strengthen families, make friends, build communities, and bring diverse cultures together. With humor not normally found in a typical cookbook, Kevin Corcoran makes the case for food’s rightful place in your social work education and career. Don’t let a lack of time and resources discourage you; you have to eat, so you may as well enjoy yourself!

Kevin Corcoran (MSW, PhD, University of Pittsburgh; JD, University of Houston) is professor partilias emeritus at Portland State University School of Social Work. He has published fifteen books and over 130 articles and ephemera. Over the past four decades he has worked tirelessly as a clinical
practitioner and researcher and as a community and commercial mediator. In 2000 and 2004 Corcoran filed Form A with the Federal Election Commission and was an official candidate for the Presidency of the United States of America. He did not win. He lives in the Pacific Northwest where he pursues
gourmet cooking, portrait painting, bonsai gardening, a random study of history, a bad golf swing, and pampering his wife and their three ornery cats (a black cat named Snowflake, a white one named Blackie, and Spot).