American Latino Magazine Food and Beverage Issue | Page 20

The Patio Restaurant at The Players Casino
Chef: West Cooke
Healthcare was my background. I
worked with kids in a group home. I
found that if I bought a cookbook they
would look at the pictures and want to
eat what they saw. So we figured out
what the recipe yielded, how many
people it served, and then figuring out
if we had to double or triple it depending on how many people were going
to be eating. I found that youths that
would normally be trying to kill themselves or each other out on the streets,
were quiet, working, and cooking.
That fascinated me. It all came back
to the basics of working together and
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