Hotel Ezra Cornell

	Guest chef Harold Moore, left, of New York City's noted Montrachet restaurant, directs Hotel School students Eli Schwartzberg '04 and Nadia Ackbar '03 in the preparation of a lobster salad with marinated beets and smoked trout vinaigrette. The dish was the first course of an elegant meal served to guests Saturday, April 6, as part of Hotel Ezra Cornell. Photographs by Charles Harrington/University Photography
	Steven Mutkoski, left, the Banfi Vintner Professor of Wine Education at the Hotel School, and Patty Mutkowski, right, manager of a wines education firm, congratulate Jesse Fox '02 on winning the R.C. Kopf Student Achievement Award. The award, presented Friday, April 5, as part of the Hotel Ezra Cornell awards banquet, comes with a $10,000 honorarium and a study tour of winemaking in California, France and Italy.
	Friday's HEC banquet dessert choices included warm Meyer lemon pudding cake and chocolate torte with dark chocolate ganache.
	School of Hotel Administration students, from left, Jill Sollenberger '05, Emily Harris '05 and Layne Foley '05 prepare to serve roast rack of lamb to guests at the Hotel Ezra Cornell banquet, April 5, in the Statler Hotel ballroom, while Giuseppe Pezzotti, a senior lecturer in food and beverages, looks on. The four-day annual event, which is entirely student-run, had a strong focus on education this year, with talks by Professor Emeritus Alfred Kahn and Professor Joel Silbey (on the economy) and hotel CEO Jonathan Tisch (on coping with the threat of terrorism in the hospitality industry).