Hot Bread Kitchen
Hot Bread Kitchen Kneads with Social Vision
Posted by Ed Yowell, Slow Food NYC
FSNYC member Jessamym Waldman is a woman who puts her bread where her politics are. Jessamyn is the Founding Director of the not-for-profit Hot Bread Kitchen. I chatted recently with Jessamyn about Hot Bread Kitchen and why and how it got started.
Ed: For those of our readers who have not met Hot Bread Kitchen by discovering and enjoying the breads, what exactly is it?
Jessamyn: Hot Bread Kitchen produces artisanal breads “kneaded with a social vision”, I like to say. We help immigrant women, who have come from places as diverse as Mexico, Afghanistan, and Togo, to turn their traditional baking skills into commercially valuable careers. That, in turn, can lead to jobs in the City’s baking industry and launching their own micro-enterprises.
E: How did you come up with the idea for Hot Bread Kitchen?
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