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Food Is Love: Meet Providence Grad Deondre Holt
The Providence Culinary Training kitchen at the back of Second Harvest Food Bank is busy. Some students are making a large kettle of...
Sep 19, 2019
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“You learn how to adapt when some days are harder than others. You learn how to give back."
Below is the speech given by Providence Culinary Training graduate Rosemary Scott, who came back to address students at our most recent...
May 21, 2019
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Providence Culinary Training Graduate Ebony Spencer is Creating Her Own Sweet Success
“If I had known you were going to take my picture, I would have done my hair!” laughs Ebony Spencer as she walks through the Providence...
May 2, 2019
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“I am the boss, but I am also you.” From Providence Student to Executive Chef, Vanessa L
The word around the kitchen is that Chef Vanessa is strict and no-nonsense, maybe even a bit of a taskmaster. But after each Providence...
Apr 8, 2019
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Muffins and Mission: A Providence graduate and his father create a special ministry
The Providence Culinary Training (PCT) kitchen at Second Harvest Food Bank is very, very busy. Eggs, flour, sugar, and spices are being...
Mar 28, 2019
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“Hardships are why we succeed.” Women, especially mothers, shine at Providence Culinary
“I love that it has to be just so,” Mary Moore says, smiling and running her hands over the tablecloth, smoothing it. “ Just perfect .”...
Mar 27, 2019
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Through the Ups and Downs, a Blessing: Providence graduate Daryl Myers of DJ’s Cheesecakes
The following blog post was contributed by Daryl Myers Jr., owner of DJ’s Cheesecakes and a graduate of Second Harvest Food Bank’s...
Jan 30, 2019
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Year in Review: Feeding Opportunity at Second Harvest
Hunger and food insecurity do not exist in a vacuum, but as a symptom of the larger issue of poverty. At Second Harvest, we are building...
Dec 19, 2018
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Ben Dunlap brings tenacity and talent to the table: We provide opportunity.
Earlier this month, Ben Dunlap stood up to the microphone in front of a group of students about to graduate from Providence Culinary...
Dec 19, 2018
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Providence Kitchen Joins the Downtown Culinary Scene
Providence Kitchen — the organization’s latest dining-for-a-cause social enterprise now open in downtown Winston-Salem. It wasn’t long...
Nov 9, 2018
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Providence Kitchen Joins the Downtown Culinary Scene
Ben Barrett unforgettably huge smile is greeting customers at the register of Second Harvest Food Bank’s Providence Kitchen — the...
Sep 27, 2018
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Right Time. Right Place: Second Harvest Food Bank opens a new restaurant
Labrone Faulks has his chef’s jacket nonchalantly draped over his shoulder as he comes into Providence Kitchen. The space is loud with...
Sep 18, 2018
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Ready to Shine: Providence Culinary Training Alumna is Helping Open Our New Restaurant
Great Grandma Ginny’s coconut cake was what you call “small town famous.” Tara Madison remembers her great grandmother’s table being...
Aug 8, 2018
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Feeding Opportunity: Jobs, Wages, and Secretary Acosta’s Visits Second Harvest
The students had just plated tomato cheese tarts and tossed the salad when Secretary R. Alexander Acosta and Representative Virginia Foxx...
Jun 7, 2018
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Accidental Volunteers: Help us honor the TCK students who came to class and suddenly became disaster
Amongst the many great folks that Second Harvest and Triad Community Kitchen have nominated for the 2018 Governor’s Service Awards, there...
Apr 2, 2018
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Finding Purpose: PCT Grad Michael Lewis Navigated Against the Odds to Fulfill a Dream
Michael Lewis admits his work ethic was not the strongest when he was a dishwasher. Dishwashing is, you can imagine, a very tedious job....
Dec 20, 2017
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How Sweet It Is: Culinary Program Graduate Starts Cheesecake Business
We had a hunch about Daryl “DJ” Myers as he walked up to get his Providence Culinary Training diploma last December. We weren’t sure what...
Oct 6, 2017
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Mise-en-place: Triad Community Kitchen graduate Jacques Moore finds his place.
Jacques Moore, a graduate of Second Harvest’s Triad Community Kitchen program, has always had a passion for cooking. He was 8 years old...
Jul 6, 2017
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What does Triad Community Kitchen mean? “It means a way out,” says graduate Terrell Anis
It wasn’t that long ago that we saw Terrell Anistead receive his diploma and knives, the customary gift to students who are graduating...
Dec 6, 2016
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Feeding the Need: Triad Community Kitchen celebrates 10 years of cooking for a cause
If you can find your way through the maze of food pallets stacked floor to ceiling in the lofty warehouse of Second Harvest Food Bank,...
Dec 2, 2016
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