Cruise-inspired turkey treat may bring home pie award

Tom Cruise loves eating turkey and New Plymouth baker Andre Glen hopes New Zealand’s top pie judges will like the taste of the white-fleshed bird just as much.

Inspired by the Hollywood star’s love of poultry, Mr Glen has hatched a turkey pie that he hopes will impress the judges at the Bakels New Zealand Supreme Pie Awards, being judged in Auckland on Friday.

Mr Glen, of Andre’s Pies and Patisserie, came up with his secret recipe of herbs, vegetables, turkey and pastry during the filming of the The Last Samurai, which starred Tom Cruise, in Taranaki earlier this year. Andre’s Pies were supplying up to 400 turkey pies a day to the Samurai cast and crew.

“I wanted to create something different. So I thought about Tom Cruise and his love of turkey,” Mr Glen said.

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