Ilan Hall, the winner of the reality TV show Top Chef, visited Northwestern University on Tuesday as a guest of the school’s Hillel. During his visit, he cooked 20 pounds of kosher lamb, which had been vacuum-sealed and brought from New York. About fifty people were in attendance for the cooking demonstration and dinner.

The following from a story by CampusJ’s Emily Glazer:

He said he brought his own knives and Kosher lamb “from Mrs. Shpitzer on the Lower East Side.”

About eight years ago, the Fiedler family donated money to build Hillel’s center and created the Fiedler Program Endowment, said Rabbi Josh Feigelson. Since then, there has been an annual Hillel food event every April.

Hall, 25, first went to Allison Hall in the afternoon to help cook a turkey stir fry dish for lunch at the Kosher station in the dining hall. Although it was not his recipe, students said they were excited just to eat something he cooked.

“You watch ‘Top Chef’ and you want to eat the food, and now you get a chance,” said Adam Rosenbloom, a Weinberg freshman.