Wine 'sip and spit' for young students gets OK
SPRINGFIELD (AP) – Illinois culinary schools want state law to allow underage students to take a sip – as long as they spit.
A Senate committee OK'd a "sip and spit" alcohol exemption Tuesday 12-1.
Emily Williams Knight is president of Kendall College in Chicago. She says students need to learn how to taste wine during their early years of culinary school – before some students reach the legal drinking age of 21.
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