Eastside High School senior Cirius Brown said she’s getting a lot more out of a culinary class this year than training to help prepare her for Johnson & Wales University, where she has been accepted into its baking and pastry program.
She’s getting the satisfaction of helping low-income families in Hawthorne, who, with the help of Brown and her classmates, are getting ingredients to prepare their own healthy meals.
During a recent class period in the Institute of Culinary Arts, she was among the Eastside students who were slicing, dicing, and carefully measuring out carrots, rice, beef and other fruits and vegetables and healthy ingredients.