STUDENT DISCOVERS RECIPE FOR SUCCESS.Byline: Sherry Joe Crosby Daily News Staff Writer Josh Brow was barely old enough to reach the kitchen sink when he prepared his first meal: a tuna sandwich made with cabbage instead of lettuce. Since then, the Granada Hills High School Granada Hills Charter High School (Granada Hills High School) is a public, charter, co-educational, secondary school consisting of students in grades 9-12. The school colors are green, black, and white. senior, now 18, has come a long way. Brow recently won a $40,000 scholarship to the prestigious Johnson and Wales Wales, Welsh Cymru, western peninsula and political division (principality) of Great Britain (1991 pop. 2,798,200), 8,016 sq mi (20,761 sq km), west of England; politically united with England since 1536. The capital is Cardiff. College of Culinary Arts in Rhode Island Rhode Island, island, United States Rhode Island, island, 15 mi (24 km) long and 5 mi (8 km) wide, S R.I., at the entrance to Narragansett Bay. It is the largest island in the state, with steep cliffs and excellent beaches. after cooking a poached poach 1 tr.v. poached, poach·ing, poach·es To cook in a boiling or simmering liquid: Poach the fish in wine. game hen in chive chive: see onion. chive Small, hardy perennial plant (Allium schoenoprasum) of the lily family, related to the onion. Its small, white, elongated bulbs and thin, tubular leaves grow in clumps. butter sauce with vegetables. Dessert was crepes filled with pastry cream and garnished with chocolate sauce and strawberries. The aspiring master chef bested 30 other students from the Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. who were given the same recipe in the May 15 contest at Los Angeles Trade Technical College. ``Josh enjoys what he does and he has a lot of confidence in himself, and it shows,'' said Sylvia Rieman, chairwoman of the school's culinary arts department. ``No matter what he does, he does it well.'' Rieman said Brow has the skills needed to become an accomplished chef. He was the first Granada Hills student to enter the demanding, two-hour contest. Brow said the urge to cook developed slowly. Before he enrolled in Rieman's course, he had taken auto shop and was preparing to join the Marine Corps in July. ``I wanted something new. I never thought about (cooking) as a career, and then it just launched,'' said Brow, who was inspired in part by family friend Matt Sutton, who trained as a chef at the famed Cordon Bleu School in Paris. ``He taught me. He showed me what can be done with cooking,'' Brow said. ``I learned I liked to do it.'' At home, Brow can be found mostly in the kitchen. He recently prepared poached thresher shark thresher shark, long-tailed, warm-water shark, genus Alopias. The upper fork of its tail is slender and sickle-shaped and is about equal in length to the rest of the body. with hollandaise sauce and rice pilaf for a friend. ``I do a lot of the cooking, and I have fun with what I do,'' said Brow, who is looking forward to starting classes in the fall. ``It's going to be a great new experience.'' CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO Granada Hills High student Josh Brow's culinary artistry has earned him a $40,000 scholarship to a cooking school in Rhode Island. Myung J. Chun/Daily News |
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