After a long day of classes, students love being able to swipe into the dining halls on campus and enjoy a home-cooked meal, but do you know who cooks the food you chow down on at the 5 and the 459? 
Executive Chef of LSU Dining, Laurence Landon, and Executive Sous Chef of the 459, David Montgomery, fell in love with cooking growing up. Now they want to share their passion with the students who eat their tasty creations every day. 
“People don’t really understand the stuff you can make with your hands. They take themselves for granted, and they don’t see enough of how you can just look at ingredients, put something together, and really impress and wow people,” says Chef Landon.
This year LSU Dining started a program called “Teaching Kitchen.” Once a month the chefs teach students to make one of their favorite, award-winning meals. All students have to do is sign up the day-of. 
“Events like this that we get to do are real special. We get to, kind of, show y’all what we do and how we’re passionate about it,” says Chef Montgomery.
The goal of “Teaching Kitchen” is to introduce students to the chefs who cook their daily meals. 
“The main comment we got back afterwards were ‘we have chefs on campus?’ Like they didn’t know we existed. The food just gets made,” says Chef Landon.
Chef Landon and Chef Montgomery want to teach students culinary skills, cooking safety and the history behind some of the dishes served at the 459 and the 5 through “Teaching Kitchen.”
“This is a great program. I really get the feedback from the students, and they really enjoy it,” says Chef Landon.
In October, the two chefs will teach students to make sushi. Sign up for free through LSU Dining.