Second Helping is Cooking Today in Charlotte

It's 97 in Charlotte today and it's HOT HOT HOT! But that didn't keep our first two Second Helping employees, Monique and Candice, from their class at Community Culinary School.



Monique cooking up a storm

Community Culinary School is a great organization that offers free training to difficult-to-employ clients, preparing them for jobs in the culinary field. Monique and Candice are learning how to slice bread (just two strokes), to roll their knives when they chop onions and make a mean hummus. 

As part of their training, they also get to help other people. Through Community Culinary School's partnership with Friendship Trays (Charlotte's Meals on Wheels), culinary school students prepare hundreds of trays for home bound people who can't cook for themselves. Monique and Candice also tend and harvest local produce from an on-site garden. The two talented chefs-to-be will graduate in August and will transition immediately to working on Second Helping's first venture, a coffee cart in a building uptown.

Visit us at http://www.secondhelpingcharlotte.org/ to learn more.