High school culinary students in Sault Ste. Marie get some tasty pointers from renowned chef

Really bruising that herb and kind of releasing all of its flavor onto the cutting board. So I've been cooking now for almost 20 years and I've had the pleasure of cooking in restaurant kitchens, TV, in classrooms and it's always fun to come to new environments especially with young students and teach them, tell them about my journey. I mean I'm a failed accountant. I went to business school and was a horrible accountant, got fired and moved to New York City and started my journey and it's just one of those things I love to share with home cooks, young cooks, students and everything in between so today we made a beef hawawshi sandwich a classic Egyptian street food where you make a meat mixture with onions peppers spices and you put the beef mixture raw into a pita bread and it's cool because when you put it in raw then you bake it and as it bakes the fat from the beef renders into the bread the bread gets crispy and then we made a nutty spicy tahini sauce to dip it in and even though it kind of sounds simple it's a sandwich there was knife skills we taught the kids we talked about balance of flavors we talked about different techniques we talked about spices all these things sometimes the simplest foods are the hardest to make exceptional and I think they had a great time I saw lots of eating which is good I love that I'm able to correct my correct some of the things that I was doing and I'm also very happy to learn more from him I love cooking I cook with my parents all the time and sometimes I have my own day where I have to cook supper and I just love cooking and learning new recipes and different like cultures. Ever since I started high school this has always been a class I wanted to do but I waited until grade 11 because I wanted to do other things and so far this class has been pretty great. Awesome cooking food like every other day. It's an awesome learning and I just find it very interesting because cooking is always something I wanted to do and it's like a second a career option for me. I'm indigenous and I'm an Italian so there's been a lot of like indigenous food that type of culture in my life and my Italian heritage so with that my family's always been like you know cooking so I've been around it a lot. The kids leading up to this were very excited like to have somebody of his caliber come in here they were a little bit nervous but you know it was really great for it's always great to have somebody else come in to see how they they do things and I learned something new today about garlic and how to how to make the garlic and how to make it watery. I really love working with the students like a lot of them it's their first time in the kitchen when I get them in grade 10 and so starting to teach them those skills that they're going to use like for the rest of their lives is is something that's really rewarding. Like some of them haven't even turned on a stove or an oven and so that they're learning that for the first time too.