Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110424:22:14:00
Was made earlier today and yesterday. it will be going out tomorrow. >> reporter: the chef explains how his life and the lives of many of his co-workers have broken pasts. what were you doing that made you hit rock bottom? >> drugs, alcohol, illegal activity. >> reporter: for years he was in and out of jail. at one point homeless with nowhere to turn. what was it like for you? >> desperate. figuring out how i'm going to survive day to day, escaping death, one bad situation after another, but things aren't like that anymore. >> reporter: he applied to d.c. central kitchen's culinary job-trainin...