https://reasonstobecheerful.world/flavors-from-afar-refugee-empowerment/
"Jamie Lauren makes five-star cooking look easy. With a trained hand, the chef
adds two eggs and olive oil to the flour, kneads the pasta dough into a pliable
ball and shows it to her eager trainees: “Touch it! You must feel it!”
Lauren is the culinary producer for the popular cooking show
Top Chef, but
today in the shining stainless steel kitchen on Hollywood Boulevard, she is
training an unusual group of aspiring chefs: Montassar Dhaouadi, a passionate
amateur cook from Tunisia; Eglal Abdelhalim, a retired diplomat for the African
Union from Sudan who holds a doctorate in political science and dreams of
opening her own restaurant; and Nouel HadjArab, who owned a bakery in Algeria
and is a trained pâtissier.
The three trainees have come to the kitchen of the Hollywood restaurant Flavors
From Afar not only to learn knife skills and make a tasty rosemary-ricotta
filling for handmade ravioli, but so much more: At the end of the eight-week
course, they will leave with a culinary training certificate, professional
headshots, a presentable résumé, ideas for a complete menu and invaluable
connections to the restaurant industry. This restaurant serves empowerment for
refugees as the main dish."
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
