00:00My name is Chef Aris Johnson. My catering company is Aris the Chef, and my spice blend
00:11company is ATC Spice Blends. Hey, girl. Hey. How long have you been a chef? I've been working
00:21professionally as a chef for like the last 15 years. I graduated from college. I got a
00:25bachelor's in marketing. That's different. Marketing to becoming a chef. I didn't always know that I
00:31wanted to be a chef. It was just something I stumbled upon. Kind of like, oh, I know how to
00:36cook. And then I just quickly found out that's my natural ability. Some people know how to sing.
00:42I know how to cook. I decide what makes it onto my next catering menu basically based on what my
00:54clients want. I like to cook food for people that they want to eat. So maybe you don't want to eat
01:00my fruit platter and my crudités. You don't like blackened catfish. So what do you like to eat?
01:05I'll make it. I'm a chef and I can make it. How do you feel when you're cooking? Because for me,
01:10it's a burden. It just feels natural. Like it feels like waking up and brushing your teeth in the
01:15morning. Like it's just, yeah. You also have your own line of seasonings, correct? Yeah, I do. Tell me
01:21more. It's a line of all natural spice blends. I use all natural ingredients. So no preservatives,
01:28no anti-caking agents. Any type of food I'm making, I like to impart a lot of flavor in it. And no one
01:36can be mad at a lot of flavor. No. So this is just all sounding like I'm about to have a delicious dinner.
01:40Oh yeah. So Miss Aris, the chef, has hooked up a delicious dinner for me this evening. We have
01:51honey glazed carrots, roasted garlic grits, and blackened catfish. And I'm about to dig in. Oh my
01:57gosh. This smells amazing. Miss Aris. This is delicious. You made this in 20 minutes. Oh my
02:07gosh. Sorry guys. Are we still saving me? Cut. Cut please. This is private time. When I'm cooking,
02:13I feel a lot of emotions. I'm excited. I'm confident for the most part. Some days a lot of room for error,
02:20a lot of doubt. But then it's always that triumph at the end after I like nail it.
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