Boston Globe 1/5/11: For hungry collegians, there’s no place like home for the holidays. A few days before Joyce Schwartz’s son Matthew returned home from college for winter break, she made a big pot of meatballs, knowing he’d want them for dinner. Simmered in thick tomato sauce, the meaty rounds are one of his and his brother Mark’s favorite meals. For a filling lunch, Matthew tucks the meatballs, topped with melted provolone, into a sub roll. Before the senior leaves to go back to Champlain College in Burlington, Vt., his indulgent mom whips up another batch for him to freeze in his off-campus apartment at school. The meatballs, says Matthew, “taste like home.’’