Program aids teens in foster care
Photo credit: Ed Betz | Amanda, left and Jasmine, participate with Richard Freilich, director of the Suffolk County Community College Culinary Arts Program, in a new program that prepares foster teens to transition out of the foster system via workshops at the Saddle Rock Ranch. (Dec. 8, 2012)
Teenagers sat at tables in a Middle Island classroom equipped with a kitchen, watching as a professional chef demonstrated how to chop a cucumber.
"See your fingers? We don't want to lose them," said Richard Freilich, Suffolk County Community College's culinary program director, tucking his fingertips away from the blade. "Use your fingers to control the vegetable."
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