Freep Film Fest opens with showing of documentary 'Coldwater Kitchen'
Film about inmates who learn culinary skills at a Michigan prison will get additional screenings at festival, which runs through Sunday.
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Film about inmates who learn culinary skills at a Michigan prison will get additional screenings at festival, which runs through Sunday.
The documentary spotlights a prison culinary training program in Coldwater, Michigan and premiered on April 26 at the Detroit Film Theatre at the Detroit Institute of Arts
A new documentary film by the Detroit Free Press explores a unique culinary program at a level-II prison.
Detroit Kitchen Terminal is a nonprofit community kitchen created by Anthony Lombardo and Desiré Vincent Levy that provides culinary training to the formerly incarcerated.
Here are a few of the honorees mentioned in the episode. Omar Anani, whose restaurant Saffron De Twah Moroccan Bistro was a semifinalist for a James Beard Foundation award for Best New Restaurant just before the pandemic hit in 2020. Then, he closed his restaurant and turned it into a community kitchen. Phil Jones, who managed to distribute over 100,000 pounds of cooked and diced chicken at the height of the pandemic. Ederique Goudia, who as lead chef for the nonprofit Make Food Not Waste upcycled food that would normally go to landfill and fed students instead. Anthony Lombardo and Desir...