Chef Trains Inmates to Work in Professional Kitchens

Something is cooking in this kitchen and it's not just pizza: skills for a better future. These cooks-in-training are inmates at the Cook County Jail in Illinois.
Oct. 14, 2019
Something is cooking in this kitchen and it's not just pizza: skills for a better future. These cooks-in-training are inmates at the Cook County Jail in Illinois. The man running the place is Bruno Abate, an Italian-born restaurateur who wants to make sure that when his students are released from prison they don't return. Abate calls his program Recipe for Change, and it's working.
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