Chef Maureen Brice gives PMS students lesson in cooking, perseverance

Описание: Chef Maureen Brice visited the Poughkeepsie Middle School home economics classroom Feb. 18 for a hands-on cooking demonstration in which she not only helped students make their own teriyaki sauce and see how it would be made into a full meal, but also shared how she became a chef for such names as Jay-Z, Pink and Aerosmith.
The event was a continuation of the Culinary Cultures and Class with Mama La, an outgrowth of the Community Schools partnership with Charlia Frank Inc., in which Poughkeepsie Middle School students have received instruction from the chefs behind Mama La’s Food for the Soul on Main Street. Chef from other local restaurants Mo Flames and Geneva’s Blues House also assisted the students, alongside Community Schools liaisons.
Eighteen students were chosen to take part in the lesson with Chef Brice. They were selected out of a group of roughly 75 applicants.
“There’s so much interest in culinary instruction,” Community Schools Interim Director Jessica Ortiz said. “That’s why we’re going to keep it going.”
Each student was given a mason jar in which they mixed the ingredients to make their teriyaki sauce, following Brice and a printed list of instructions along the way.
“I wanted to teach you how to make your own teriyaki sauce so you don’t have to resort all the time to the store-bought stuff. The store-bought stuff has tons of ingredients, chemicals, that are unnecessary,” Brice explained.