The Lincoln Lantern News

 

                                      December, 2015

Culinary Arts Welcomes Master Chef Drake

By Twantanisha Derrough

        Stephen Drake is the new culinary arts teacher at Lincoln. Chef Drake became interested in cooking as an offspring of good cooks. He previously taught at Franklin D. Roosevelt for three years and L.D Bell for one. When asked what he loves most about his job, Chef Drake responded he loves teaching kids who don’t know how to cook and crafting them into young apprentices who know over forty terms in French and more than eight ways to cut meat.

     Not only being talented in cooking, Chef Drake also builds sculptures out of gingerbread and creates beautiful ice sculptures. Around the holidays he plans to coach the students here at Lincoln into building a gingerbread replica of our school. By building the gingerbread replica he says the students will use basic skills and knowledge of their past learning experiences. He is also known for his signature dish, the pecan delight pie with raspberry drizzle and for placing second at a local competition of Iron Chef. He is fascinated by Lincoln’s new kitchen and dining area and looks forward to making various dishes.