Rachel’s husband was controlling and demeaning. She had a job that she dreaded. Her family lived several states away and she had new grandbabies she hadn’t met yet. “I was miserable,” Rachel recalls. When her marriage ended, Rachel took the…
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At the 2019 Florida Restaurant & Lodging Show, two Second Harvest Culinary Training Program graduates took home honors in The Florida Wedding Cake Challenge, beating out veteran pastry chefs. Hosted by the American Culinary Federation’s Central Florida Chapter, the competition…
As elementary, middle and high school students head back to class, so do adults entering Second Harvest’s Culinary Training Program. Instead of reading, writing and arithmetic, for the next 16 weeks, these students will receive hands-on training necessary to obtain…
Six months after completing Second Harvest’s Culinary Training Program, Johnny Brummit received an invitation of a lifetime. On July 25, he traveled with his grandmother who instilled a love of cooking in him, to Washington, DC to speak at the…
Last Friday, Second Harvest Food Bank’s Culinary Training Program students had the opportunity to hone their presentation and serving skills at Nourish Coffee Bar + Kitchen located inside the Center for Health & Wellbeing in Winter Park during the “Kickoff…
The last place any parent wants to raise their children is in a homeless shelter. After a series of unfortunate events, including job loss and domestic violence, Qui and her sons were living in an emergency shelter. She’d hit rock…