The smile on Maria Carrillo High junior Jessie Silva's face is so bright, and the kitchen in her school's Advanced Culinary Program so glistening clean, you can scarcely look at either without squinting.
Jessie beams and the kitchen's been super-shined because a Food Network crew assigned to Guy Fieri's &‘Cooking With Kids' initiative is coming to school Friday - to video Jessie as she prepares a pork loin with apple-cider gravy.
The shoot's happening because weeks ago at Guy's birthday party at the Bennett Valley Golf Course, a "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives" producer noticed Jessie's verve.
The 17-year-old was there as one of four MCHS culinary students recruited by teacher Mary Schiller to help out in the Legends kitchen. The Triple-D producer spotted Jessie and thought she'd be an ideal student to feature in the webisode of "Cooking With Kids" that Guy will shoot this weekend at Sonoma's Ramekins Culinary School.
The crew wants some time with Jessie beforehand so it's coming to school Friday. Her teacher isn't at all surprised that Jessie - "the perkiest, cutest little thing" - caught a TV producer's eye.
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