MEET MY CLASSMATES, 17 QUESTIONS...CHAD

I've been attending school since January during which time I've gotten to know my classmates but since beginning to write about school in April, you haven't gotten the same opportunity. It's long since time that you were introduced to a great bunch of people. This occasional feature, 17 Questions, will give you an idea of who they are, their culinary likes and dislikes and why they decided to go to FCI in the first place.

Chad, left, joined our class in Level Two. He had been in a class which had begun ahead of us but had to take a break for personal reasons. During Level Three Chad, Meg (who you've met before), Tim, Jane and myself formed one group of students that progressed through the different food stations in the restaurant kitchen. It was a pretty cohesive, well-oiled cooking machine.

NAME: Chad Hapshe
FROM: Boston, Mass.
BDAY: July 22nd, 1978
FAVORITE FOOD: Grape Leaves

1) McDonald's or Burger King?
-- B.K.
2) Coffee or Tea?
-- Coffee
3) Starbucks or Dunkin' Donuts?
-- Dunkin Donuts
4) Burgers of BBQ?
-- Burgers
5) What's your favorite ice cream flavor?
-- Chocolate-Peanut Butter
6) What's the dish that if on the menu, no matter how many times you've eat it you still can't help but order?
-- I told you, rolled grape leaves.
7) What food do you hate the most?
-- Lima beans
8) Do you have any heirloom recipes passed on to you by grandparents, parents, siblings or friends and if so what is the recipe for? If not, what's an old standby recipe you never have to look up that you love to cook?
-- GRAPE LEAVES
9) Name three jobs you've had:
-- I've only cooked.
10) You're stranded in the mountains after miscalculating a parachute-jump while foraging for a rare ingredient, splendifera tremens, a spice that grows only on cliff-sides. After 2 weeks surviving on the horrible-tasting leaves of this plant, 20 lbs lighter, you finally return to civilization rich with it. You can afford any food on the plante-- what's your first meal?
-- Grape leaves, dude!
11) What's the most inventive and successful dish you've ever made?
-- Groud-turkey stuffed peppers with cinnamon.
12) What's the biggest flop you've ever made?
-- Homefries
13) Who are your favorite and most hated food celebrities?
Favorite: None Most Hated: Tyler Florence
14) What's your favorite cookbook?
-- The New England Cookbook
15) Do you have any tattoos and if so how many? If you don't have one what would yours be if you decided to get one?
-- 14
16) You're cooking for a party of influential people and if it's successful you could win one of the prizes, behind the following doors:
#1 A food TV show
#2 A Ferrari and a KitchenAid mixer
#3 A new commercial kitchen and a lease
Describe what you would cook and circle the door.
-- New England-Lebanese Fusion
-- A new commercial kitchen and a lease.
17) In 20 words or less, describe what made you make the food leap to FCI.
-- I was #$%&ing drunk when I made the retarded decision to attend this @#$ school.