I've been interested in food and cooking
for a very long time. I've developed my
love for cooking and for good food
when i was a teenager from my dad
and cooked for a very,
very long time.  I started cooking
professionally about 20 years ago and
started where everybody else starts.
I washed dishes and moved
through the restaurant - worked
different stations - and decided what I
really wanted to do was amp up my career
by going to culinary arts school.
So, I went to Johnson Wales in Charleston
South Carolina.  And when
I graduated, I started looking
at different career paths
and really kind of discovered that
education is the thing I truly love to do.
When students enroll in the culinary
arts program, we have a couple of
expectations.  Passion for
what they're doing - that they're
really passionate about food.
And inherent curiosity.  Somebody that is
curious beyond simply just learning
a fact or learning how to do a thing.
They really want to learn about
it at a deeper level.
When you have a student that wants to
learn at that level, you've got
instructors that can teach
them at that level.
