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Cornell Dining team showcases Food of the Original People at UMass Amherst

The University of Massachusetts Amherst hosted a Best Campus Food Celebration this spring to feature top collegiate chefs from across the nation, including several institutions named to The Princeton Review's Best Campus Food listing this year. A team from Cornell Dining showcased a menu based on our Ǫgwahǫwéhneha:ˀ gyǫhéhgǫh or Food of the Original People event at Morrison Dining last fall.

A table with red tablecloth and Cornell pennants, with plates of food and a Best Campus Food emblem

Cornell Dining's team included Senior Chef Chloe Greenhalgh, and Kim Por and Brenda Doeing from Morrison Dining, sharing two of the entrées and three of the side dishes from November's event.

Three women in chef coats and black aprons in a college kitchen

The team presented a menu that included sumac seared salmon with a smoked blue and blackberry onion sauce; warm corn and bean quinoa salad with dandelion greens, green beans, yellow zucchini, walnuts and maple syrup; duck fat roasted butternut squash and turnip, garnished with a berry fruit leather and pumpkin seeds; and blue corn mush with juniper ash, toasted pine nuts and marinated berries; plus sassafras tea.

Two smiling cooks in chef coats and aprons

Cornell Dining's Assistant Director Meng-Wei Hsu also participated on a panel discussion about higher education dining programs across the country.

A row of people at a table on a stage

Photos by Keith Toffling Photography courtesy UMass Dining.

About Cornell Dining

Cornell Dining is consistently ranked in the Princeton Review's top ten for best campus food among all colleges and universities in the country! That high rating comes from customer surveys, and reflects Cornell Dining's commitment to serving high-quality foods that are healthy and creatively prepared with genuine care for a diverse community. Cornell Dining operates over 30 on-campus eateries -- which include residential dining rooms, cafés, coffeehouses, food courts, and convenience stores -- and serves more than 23,000 meals a day to members of the Cornell community. For more information, visit dining.cornell.edu.