Cultivating Culinary Arts Around the Globe

The food service industry is one of the fastest growing economic sectors. Since 2006, the industry in the United States has grown by more than two million employees, according to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. Today, there are more than 11 million employees working in food service. As a result, community kitchens from Los Angeles to Singapore are training—and empowering—countless people around the globe to join this growing industry. In Los Angeles, those who were formerly incarcerated are learning about the culinary arts and community activism, while in Singapore, the differently abled are gaining the skills necessary to work as chefs, line cooks, clerks and entrepreneurs.  

Here are 20 international training kitchens that are helping youth and adults transform their lives and pursue careers in the culinary world.

Bait al Karama: (Nablus, Palestine) Nablus’ Slow Food chapter, Bait al Karama, is a women’s center that focuses on food as a…