many students offer, including the school of culinary arts in kendall college where my colleague chris koetkest of the livewell network lets dish, is the executive director. well this is the business for the majority of the students working in the restaurant business. you got pork that you needs to be done in anticipation of service. they need to be ready to go, be able to execute properly, fashionably. it's invaluable hands-on experience, something you can learn by actually doing it. as orders progress you learn more and more, you feel confident. here, i get to run an operation, a restaurant, an establishment, so it's a lot of fun. a lot of growing. like chase nussburger, many students in the class are just a few months away from graduation. i came in here about a year and a half ago. it was like starting through college again. i graduated from college recently, and i made a career change. the former business salesman decided to finally pursue his passion and while he already has a job working in a restaurant kitchen this degree will make it official. students not only get to work in the kit

i'm chris koetke. on today's show we're having a grown up kids party.w what that means is we're going to be indulging in kids dishes that are throw backs to our childhood but with an adult gourmet twist. we'll do an upscale an unique burger that is green in color and our guest chef will make her version of mac and cheese but with the more grown up ingredient truffles and lastly we'll make a dessert brownie with a favorite beer amoung adults. you'll want to stick around for that one. but first, we're going to start with a grilled cheese party. now the idea for this came from, i was thinking about my childhood and you know what my folks used to do? they used to have friends over and we would have pizza party and they'd put pizza dough out and put tomato sauce on top and lots of toppings and everybody made their own. so why not do the same with grilled cheese? i mean doesn't everybody love grilled cheese? so you do something like this. a nice little spread of different breads and cheeses. you can throw some meats in there if you want and lots of different