He has been cooking, grilling, and bar-b-queing on various smokers and grills since he was 18, 50+ years ago. In 2006, he taught in the Dorothy Lane Cooking School. He led the project to purchase the Lang Smoker for Moraine Country Club (a competition grade smoker on a 15’ trailer) and has taught three different chefs how to use it. With experience bar-b-queing for groups of 175-225 people, he has been the featured Guest Chef twice at Moraine Country Club, was featured in the Food Section of the Dayton Daily News, and in Dutch Oven Gourmet Cooking by the Food Editor Ann Heller. He and his wife Sue have prepared and donated charity gourmet dinner parties for Dayton Children’s Hospital and Catholic Social Services, raising many thousands of dollars for those charities.