East Bay residents make dough with the Bread Project

Cooking school can be expensive, but at the Berkeley-based Bread Project it’s free to learn the culinary arts. They reach out to find students from low-income neighborhoods, and teach them the secrets to crème brulée and carrot cake.

KALW’s Hana Baba dropped by The Bread Project’s bakery in Emeryville during class to speak to some of the students and teachers. The huge kitchen is filled with pots, pans, massive ovens and fresh ingredients, and it smells of freshly-baked pastries, cinnamon, apples and strawberries. Hana put on the mandated plastic lunch lady cap, and went first to speak with the director, Dagmar Schroeder-Huse.