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Culinary arts teacher Wilma Stephenson and student Erica Gaither	Students waiting to compete	Erica and her cheerleading squad	Erica Gaither	Erica Gaither, who’s also a cheerleader
Fatoumata Dembele	Chef Thomas Krichel gives student Fatoumata Dembele some pointers	Teacher Wilma Stephenson getting student Tyrone Dudley ready for the competition with Leigh Iacobucci filming and Erica Gaith	co-director Mark Becker on camera and Leigh Iacobucci on sound

Three seniors at Philadelphia's Frankford High School find an unlikely champion in the kitchen of Wilma Stephenson. A legend in the school system, Mrs. Stephenson's hilariously blunt boot-camp method of teaching Culinary Arts is validated by years of scholarship success. Against the backdrop of the row homes of working-class Philadelphia, she has helped countless students reach the top culinary schools in the country. And under her fierce direction, the usual distractions of high school are swept aside as Erica, Dudley and Fatoumata prepare to achieve beyond what anyone else expects from them.