"It'll be like herding cats." That was our first time meeting each other. In the summer of 2016, we were serendipitously paired together to assist Chef Brenner in teaching an introductory cooking course to a group of high school students.

Before the students rolled in, Chef explained to us both that keeping the high schoolers from cutting their fingers off would be less like a Gordon Ramsay masterclass and more like trying to round up the colony of feral felines that lives behind your local Wal-Mart.

After that class, we