Spicing up the Checkout Lane

My favorite spice, I said.
Me too.
My student turned me onto it and I never looked back.
Do you teach cooking?
I have, but as a floating teacher; bread baking, pressure cooking, yogurt making, you name it. I was a prep chef for years and it was more fun than college, we were like a dance troupe the way we worked together.
My son's a dancer.
I can see by how you're holding your feet.
And his arm muscles, his mom said.
Her son smiled.
Look him up online, Pittsburgh Ballet, she said.

I did:

Corey Bourbonniere, a native of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, is in his fourth season with Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre. Prior to joining the company in 2012, Corey received his training with the State Ballet of Rhode Island and Heritage Ballet in Rhode Island as well as the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School Graduate Program. He also attended summer programs at the American Academy of Dance and Texas Ballet Theater. Among his many PBT performances, Corey’s favorites include Mark Morris's Maelstrom and Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes and featured roles, such as a Stomper in Twyla Tharp's In the Upper Room and Drosselmeyer in Terrence S. Orr's The Nutcracker