Many Career and technical education (CTE) teachers concern themselves with the practical application of skills in their course content. Common Core State Standards (CCSS) have increased the emphasis on disciplinary literacy in courses making every teacher a literacy teacher requiring every teacher to teach students to be literate in their content area and discipline area. Not all CTE teachers are comfortable with incorporating literacy skills because they do not have the confidence, the education, or the professional development training to include literacy in their curriculum. CTE teachers also do not feel CCSS aligns with the practical, hands-on application of their content (Hasselquist & Kitchel, 2019; McKim et al., 2016). When core academic knowledge standards are integrated into CTE courses, students receive opportunities to develop and achieve academic literacy skills at a higher level in CTE programs (McKim et al., 2016; Park et al., 2017). This narrative inquiry explores the language-in-use of culinary arts teachers in a professional learning community and the integration of an industry-based article as one way to introduce connections, situated meanings, and intertextuality of literacy into the course curriculum. As a CTE business teacher stated, "students have to be literate". The topic I am interested in is what literacy looks like in career and technical education and defining what literacy looks like in technical/hands-on/practical or vocational application skills, information acquisition skills, employability skills, and the integration of core academic content and skills (math, language arts/English, science, social studies) into CTE courses, specifically in the discipline of culinary arts. Literacy is more than language arts or English, it is gaining knowledge about many different topics and being able to incorporate that knowledge with applicability and transferability to our everyday life -- family, community, and career. Literacy allows us to understand and make connections to the world around us (Hasselquist & Kitchel, 2019; McKim et al., 2016). [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com.bibliotheek.ehb.be/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]