Shelter Chefs Provide Culinary Training Along With Hot Meals

A growing number of professionally trained chefs are working to serve the homeless — and offering to teach needy people the skills they need to get food-service jobs, says USA Today.

The article profiles several chefs at Salvation Army centers and other charities, some of whom have had experiences with drugs, crime, and homelessness, who work in professional kitchens or prepare hundreds of meals a day for the organizations’ clients.

“I’m a light to these guys who knew me from the street,” said Cecil Morris Jr., an ex-addict who now runs the kitchen at a Salvation Army rehab center in Mobile, Ala. “They see me now, and they see how far I’ve come.”