Meet the chef teaching culinary skills to inmates at the East Baton Rouge Prison

Chef Celeste Gill grew up in Detroit watching cooking demonstrations by Julia Child and Justin Wilson on TV.

Now she is the one doing the cooking demonstrations, but instead for TV cameras, she’s teaching skills to inmates at the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison, and she wouldn’t have it any other way.

Her goal is for the men in her class to leave prison with manager and food service certifications and the skills to succeed in any restaurant across the country…

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