 Browning butter, chopping veggies, mixing dough, and prepping food. Part of the week-long Livin' La Vita Nova in the professional kitchen of Vita Nova in the Tremont Student Center. Mixing up biscuit dough, Sophia of Red Lion Christian Academy says, You know, I've learned a lot of cool cooking tricks and skills and a lot of sanitary things and just how to make food better, I guess. I've got 14 things of salmon that I need to cut in half. I'm done with about five of them.