Well, she's changed her major to "Food Science", and apparently there's a good chance she'll get some significant scholarships through the department- as they have lots of dollars available and a small number of students to bestow them on. There are only 65 students enrolled in the Food Science program currently, whereas there are literally thousands in the business college she left.
She was really excited after she talked to the department rep. There are several areas of emphasis she could choose and most of them sound interesting to her. He also told her of a student who spent a whole summer internship baking cakes for a box cake factory. Apparently they were having problems with product performance shipping to a low, moist area and he spent the whole summer trying out different kinds and amounts of leavening until he got the optimum combo right. I had no idea companies like that tailor their products to fit the region they'll be shipped to, but apparently they do. My daughter thought that'd be a great way to spend a summer.
It'd be kinda interesting to take a box cake mix from here when we visit my other daughter next, and see what it does at 6000 feet higher altitude.
Probably foam out of the pan!
Anyway, I think she'll enjoy this field. She likes amazing people with good cooking. The other day she asked me for my meatloaf recipe on the phone, and I gave her general guidelines, not actual amounts, but she got the gist of the idea and went ahead and made it -- and apparently her boyfriend was blown away.
Had never tasted meatloaf that good. It's kinda sad, how few people actually cook these days.