Chef Charlie Gipe taught his students how to make a pineapple volcano with salsa as the lava. He showed them how to cut cucumbers into sharks and turn carrots into flowers. Diced green, red and yellow peppers became confetti to decorate dishes.
Gipe has taught these skills to high school and college students, but this time his students were sailors aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Ronald Reagan. Gipe spent a week in June showing the U.S. Navy cooks the finer points of chopping, garnishing and serving food fast.
"They were amazed at what they could do on board," said Gipe, executive chef at the Giant Center in Derry Township.
Navy officials want to expand the program …
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