Russ & Daughters, the famous Lower East Side appetizing counter and restaurant, is not just a New York City institution; it’s also a committed partner of Hot Bread Kitchen. Ahead of the Jewish High Holy Days, one of the busiest and most thrilling times of year for the 107-year-old family business, Hot Bread Kitchen spoke […]
Breadwinners
Good Food, Jobs, and Partnership at La Boulangerie de Francois
Hot Bread Kitchen has been lucky to partner with employers from across the spectrum of food businesses, of all sizes and specialties, markets and backgrounds, cuisines of the world and corners of the city. Of the many small local businesses with which we’ve partnered to help women launch careers in food, there is one that […]
Uplifting AAPI heritage: Jesebel Gumogda
Jesebel shares her experience of being a Filipina immigrant entrepreneur and creating a family legacy through her business.
Women’s History Month Reflections
In honor of Women’s History Month, we have spent March 2021 in conversation with people who are making women’s history right now: our community of members, supporters, and staff. As part of our work to shape women’s history for future generations at this historic moment, we asked the Hot Bread Kitchen community what women’s history […]
Women’s History is happening right now.
On International Women’s Day, do more than celebrate women’s history—shape it. Support our 2021 Women’s History Month campaign. “I have impacted women’s history by changing the trajectory of my own life.” Onasia, Hot Bread Kitchen workforce member Last March, at the start of Women’s History Month, we had no idea how much women’s history was […]
“Abundance and paying homage”: Chef Lexis Gonzalez shares her family culinary history as part of a larger African-American story
Few chefs capture the variety and singularity of African diasporic cuisines as deftly as Chef Lexis Gonzalez, founder and owner of Lady Lexis Sweets, an East Harlem-based business making sweet and savory foods. Chef Lexis’s Boricua-Geechee dishes are not only a reflection of her family’s roots in Puerto Rico and the low country of the […]
