CLERMONT, Fla. — A Lake County A+ Teacher is cooking in the classroom by sharing her passion to help students learn all types of skills they can really sink their teeth into.

Kimberly Breeding teaches Culinary Arts, Hospitality, and Tourism to Windy Hill Middle School students in Clermont and said, “I feel like I’m doing something I was meant to do."

At three years old Breeding was helping to whip up potato salad. It's a love of cooking she likely inherited from her grandparents who owned a food market.

“I always loved cooking and my first career was a chef," she said.

Years later she went back to school to study Education and says, “I landed my first interview at Windy Hill and I got my dream job so it worked out really well.”

Breeding's students learn to cook from scratch just like she did as a child.

She adds, “One year they learned how to make sushi. They've learned traditional Chinese food, Greek, French. I kind of throw everything at them.”

She says her students are learning all types of skills that help them in their other classes too.

“They do measuring so they need to know their math and we do history in our hospitality class," Breeding said. "Actually this week they’re learning the history of hospitality and how it started in like 15,000 BC.”

Students can earn state certifications in Breeding's class and can even develop and propose food truck ideas. They're the only middle school in Lake County to do so.

Breeding adds, “So it makes me happy. I get very emotional -  so that’s me.”