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    When the Teacher is Ready, or What I Learned from a 20-Year Old Chef
    When the Teacher is Ready, or What I Learned from a 20-Year Old Chef
    When the Teacher is Ready, or What I Learned from a 20-Year Old Chef
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    When the Teacher is Ready, or What I Learned from a 20-Year Old Chef

    By Pat MacEnulty

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    When the Teacher is Ready shares the cooking lessons and recipes that an English professor learned from her 20-year old student.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPrism Light Press
    Release dateAug 10, 2014
    ISBN9780989806626
    When the Teacher is Ready, or What I Learned from a 20-Year Old Chef
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    Pat MacEnulty

    Pat MacEnulty is the author of four novels, including Sweet Fire, and a collection of short stories. She is also a teacher, workshop leader, writing coach, and freelance editor. She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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      When the Teacher is Ready, or What I Learned from a 20-Year Old Chef - Pat MacEnulty

      Copyright © 2014 Prism Light Press

      Smashwords Edition

      All Rights Reserved.

      Published by

      Prism Light Press

      PO Box 625, Tallahassee, FL 32302

      www.prismlightpress.com

      Manufactured in the United States of America.

      ISBN 978-0-9898066-2-6

      PRISM LIGHT

      PRESS

      Contents

      The Secret Ingredient

      Blanching

      To the Beautiful Sea

      Dressing Up

      Cutting Up

      Epilogue

      About the Author

      The Secret Ingredient

      I teach English composition, public speaking, creative writing, and an assortment of other classes at Johnson & Wales University in Charlotte, North Carolina. The school is renowned for its culinary and baking and pastry program, and it is with a weary sigh that those of us who are not chefs tell people, Yes, I teach at Johnson & Wales, and no, I don’t cook.

      The standard response is: You mean they have to take other classes, too?

      Well, they are getting a university degree. It does help if they can write a paragraph, we answer.

      In fact, we have some students who are not even studying cooking and don’t take a single lab. But the truth is I enjoy teaching at a school that is known to excel at something, and over the years I have learned to appreciate the talent our students display over a stove. Sure, I can spell, but these kids can feed people. It’s humbling.

      Tall and lanky with wavy shoulder-length hair, Jake Shisoff walked into my English class with a smile on his face and the confidence of a much older student. Although he was only 19, everyone sensed a leader had entered the room. After a few classes, I recognized him as a kindred spirit -- like me a native Floridian, like me raised by a hardworking single mom, like me a little rough around the edges.

      As with many bright, passionate people, Jake had little time or inclination for jumping through hoops, but he understood the value of a degree from Johnson & Wales University with its prestigious culinary program so he dutifully came to both classes that he had with me that term: composition and public speaking. He always wore a suit and a cheerful countenance, participating in class, and impressing the other students with both his writing and his speeches.

      I soon saw from his writing that he didn’t necessarily need to be in a first-year English composition class. But he rarely missed a class and he did his work -- up to a point. Though he could easily have made an A+ in the composition class, he

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