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- Jul 16, 2020
The Journey Home
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- May 8, 2020
Between Beauty and the Beast, We Walk the Line
Chef Vanessa Lanier of Second Harvest’s Providence shares her experiences as a chef and on the frontlines at HEARD Collaborative Café,...
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- Jan 16, 2020
The Student Becomes the Teacher
Meet Terrell Anistead, graduate of Second Harvest's Providence Culinary Training, CC 37-2016, and rising star in Winston-Salem's food scene.
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- Nov 25, 2019
100 Graduations... and counting.
Second Harvest’s Providence Culinary Training graduations are uniquely wonderful events. At the request of Providence’s founder, Chef Jeff B
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- Oct 9, 2019
Through Giving, We Grow: Steven and Steve Jones
If you stop by Second Harvest Food Bank’s Providence Culinary Training, chances are you will see Steven Jones. Steven, 23, is handsome...
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- Sep 30, 2019
The Possibilities Are Endless for Providence Culinary Training Graduate Charles Jarvis
Charles Jarvis, a graduate of Providence Culinary Training, says there are a million ways to make a dish-- and a life.
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- Sep 19, 2019
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...
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- May 2, 2019
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...
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- Apr 8, 2019
“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...
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- Dec 19, 2018
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...
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- Dec 19, 2018
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...
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- Jun 7, 2018
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...
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- Dec 20, 2017
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....
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- Oct 6, 2017
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...
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- Jul 6, 2017
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...
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- Dec 6, 2016
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...
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- Dec 2, 2016
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,...
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- Feb 21, 2016
A Journey Back to Love and Self Respect
Born in West Palm Beach, Florida, Charles met and fell in love with Sandra in Hendersonville, North Carolina, while working for his...
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