{"id":14451,"date":"2023-02-16T15:15:07","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T21:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=14451"},"modified":"2023-02-16T15:15:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T21:15:08","slug":"more-than-just-cooking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=14451","title":{"rendered":"More Than Just Cooking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Miguel Turrubiates grill shawarma.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Emilio Flores
Los Fresnos News<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Culinary Arts with Petros Jaferis at Los Fresnos High is more than just cooking, it\u2019s learning how to move decisively, be aggressive, and learn to push yourself. He says they learn to think ahead, and how important and crucial teamwork is. Jaferis says he teaches the students that what one person does in the kitchen affects the rest as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


“Even if you’re the fastest or best person for yourself, if you’re not a bonus to your team, you can still be a neutral or a net loss” Jaferis teaches his students to work together, and not be afraid of failure, he says it\u2019s part of the process of learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Jaferis says If you are not ahead of the pack for yourself, but instead, a team player, the team is better by you having them. You become a very high net positive.\u201d Teaching the students to integrate with a team and learn how to shine as both individuals, and collectively, it gives students so much more of an edge in whatever the student decides to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gerry Reyes, Jonathan Stevens, Luzelena Echevarria, Kendell Flores, Mirelly Garcia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n


“They’re Learning Techniques and stuff that is preparing them for the world,” He says the class is very much hands-on. They have a textbook, Jaferis explains, \u201cIt\u2019s a college textbook, but what I really care about is imparting the techniques and encouraging lateral thinking,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Jaferis says he encourages experimentation and failure. \u201cI\u2019ll ask them a few pointer
questions, to find their thought process. Then, okay, do it.\u201d He tells the students, this is the place to mess up!<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Petros says that it takes about 6-8 weeks for the students to get used to the kitchen and some of the basics, but he says, then, \u201cWe get to the fun stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n


“The Other thing I’m doing,\u201d Petros says, \u201cI’m trying to create people that I would want to hire,” Jaferis says “Techniques are more flexible than recipes,” He stresses that you can have just one technique, and use it for many different recipes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


In the classroom, Jaferis is teaching students how to deal with pressure and work with a sense of urgency. He explains that under pressure he tells the kids it will work out. Yes, there are bad outcomes, \u201cthey\u2019re learning to normalize pressure,\u201d Jaferis says it\u2019s fine to mess up in the classroom, in fact, this is the best place for them to make mistakes and learn from them, in the classroom!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Students, Karla Zambrono & Jocelyn Castillo practice rolling gnocchi in the kitchen!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n


\u201cI want to give them those skills that will help them no matter what\u2026\u201d Jaferis says \u201cBut I also want to introduce them to a best friend, and cooking is an amazing friend.\u201d \u201cNo matter what day you had, [you] go home. Cook. And you accomplish something powerful, and get the satisfaction of doing something good.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Being successful builds confidence and Jaferis hopes to share this wisdom through cooking, whether students use this knowledge to pursue it as a career or it later empowers them with skills they use in an entirely different path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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various groups make chicken salads made with usable trim from chicken, scratch-made bread, Nicaraguan style slaw, and chicken roulade with white wine pan sauce.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Emilio FloresLos Fresnos News Culinary Arts with Petros Jaferis at Los Fresnos High is more than just cooking, it\u2019s learning how to move decisively, be aggressive, and learn to push yourself. He says they learn to think ahead, and how important and crucial teamwork is. Jaferis says he teaches the students that what one person […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10],"tags":[67,9,113,25],"class_list":["post-14451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lfcisd","category-local","tag-featured","tag-latest","tag-local","tag-los-fresnos-cisd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14458,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14451\/revisions\/14458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}