Hot Bread Kitchen is thrilled to announce the relaunch of our signature culinary training program from a brand new home–and with a brand new leader for the organization! In January, Hot Bread Kitchen officially relocated to the iconic Chelsea Market, where we are being generously hosted by our longtime partners at Google. Hot Bread Kitchen’s […]
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“A Safe Haven for all of my Identities”
Chef Diamond Wynn is the lead instructor of Hot Bread Kitchen’s flagship Culinary Fundamentals Program. A former member of our Food Entrepreneurship Program, HBK Incubates, Chef Diamond has a background in catering, workforce programming, culinary instruction, and recipe development. She joined the Hot Bread Kitchen team in 2022 as the chef instructor at our Brooklyn-based Community Outposts and this year took over as the lead instructor at our Chelsea Market headquarters. Here, Chef Diamond shares what she’s learned from working with Hot Bread Kitchen members.
Hot Bread Kitchen alumni opens brick-and-mortar bakery in Brooklyn
How does a small New York City baking business make it from a home kitchen to its own brick-and-mortar shop?
Hot Bread Kitchen Launches Restaurant Cook Training Program in Collaboration with SBS
Hot Bread Kitchen and the NYC Department of Small Business Services (SBS) announce a new collaboration to present “First Course NYC,” a culinary training and apprenticeship program that prepares New Yorkers for quality restaurant cook jobs in restaurants across the city. The program, developed in 2018 by SBS and the NYC Food and Beverage Industry […]
Learning English, Finding community
For many of us, the past few years have included a lot of wondering what comes next. For Hot Bread Kitchen members like Isabel, 2022 has been the year to answer that question. “I was [at a tabling event] looking for information about the citizenship process, and I saw a beautiful picture of a woman in […]
A Letter from our CEO
Make a contribution today and you’ll lay a strong foundation for the breadwinners of tomorrow.
Shelly, 2Girls & A Cookshop
Shelly, a single parent and first-generation Jamaican American, launched her business, 2Girls & A Cookshop, from her home with her teenage daughter. Her business goals were humble and ambitious at the same time. She wanted to find a way to move production to a commercial kitchen space to ensure more consistent income for her family, […]
