Cooking school can be expensive, but at the Berkeley-based "Bread Project", it’s free to learn the culinary arts. They reach out to find students from low-income neighborhoods, and teach them the secrets to crème brulée and carrot cake. Many students are former prison inmates, drug addicts, or have otherwise had their share of troubles..
I dropped by The Bread Project’s bakery in Emeryville during class to speak to some of the students and teachers. The huge kitchen is filled with pots, pans, massive ovens and fresh ingredients, and it smells of freshly-baked pastries, cinnamon, apples and strawberries. I put on the mandated plastic lunch lady cap, and went first to speak with the director, Dagmar Schroeder-Huse.
Listen here.
