Select HRM Students Cook Thanksgiving Favorites
By Erin Meyers

With Thanksgiving less than two weeks away, Hotel and Restaurant Management students displayed a variety of holiday recipes Wednesday at a Thanksgiving themed cooking demo in Eckles Hall. MU students and Columbia residents attended the free event, part of MU’s Fall Welcome.

Chef Leslie Jett, coordinator of research and operations of food sciences, led the event, which featured five HRM student chefs. According to Jett, the students are in preparation for a six-day stay on a Navy vessel in San Diego, Calif., beginning Nov. 19.

“They need experience in front of people they don’t know,” Jett said.

Recipes included in the event ranged from traditional Thanksgiving stuffing and chutney to Herb and Spice Roasted Cornish Game Hens and Steak Diane. Throughout the evening, Jett reminded the audience, “recipes are merely guidelines”.

The students and Jett encouraged questions from the audience during the presentation, solving attendees Thanksgiving Day menu issues. One audience member expressed her concern of expediting the cooking process of her turkey for Thanksgiving Day. Jett offered several options, including separating the turkey in halves and buying a smoked turkey instead of a traditional turkey.

At the end of the presentation, hungry attendees filled up their plates with the evening’s recipes.

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