OUR FCI CLASS PICTURE

Minutes after completing our final exam we entered the dining room at L'Ecole where we were given champagne glasses and our picture was taken. It was the quiet after the storm and we were all much relieved-- elated after 10 months to finally be done. It was a happy moment. In the halls of the French Culinary Institute class pictures line the walls, including one that I often saw downstairs near the kitchens, which showed Bobby Flay looking at one of his classmates, apparently laughing or goofing off. Having taken the final and gone through the schoolyear, we can understand the looks on everyones' faces a little better.

Today our FCI class picture arrived. While I don't miss dreading the final, I do miss the thrice-weekly ritual of going to school and being with my classmates. We were a good group.


Names put to faces on the jump...

From left to right, front row: Dan Haar, Pat Kerrigan, Jung-Min Kim, Philip Clary, Zoe Brickley.
From left to right, second row: Me, Chad Hapshe, Time Klin, Lisandra, Sampurna Satpathy, Christine, Kenny Hubschman, Bora Yoon.
From left to right, third row: Jessica Moore, Meg Griffin, Alex Rosende, Sarah Blair, Tiasha Ballard, Jane Crocker, Marguerite Sharkey, Gary Comstock.
Fourth row: the judges.
From left to right, back row: Chef Greg Bear, Chef Roger Powell, Chef Janet, Chef Alain, Chef Nick, and Chef Candy.

I'll have to return to school to see where our picture is.