PROVIDENCE – The story of food in the city of Providence and how it has helped to define its multicultural heritage is a tale that keeps being rewritten with each new wave of immigrants to Rhode Island.
Much of the attention these days has been focused on the entrepreneurial chefs and the development of a haute cuisine – chefs that have been trained at Johnson & Wales University, and entrepreneurs who have developed their unique products at Hope & Main to spur on start-up culinary businesses.
The missing ingredient from the economic equation has been a workforce development program for those who work in the kitchens, something that the Genesis Center has sought to add with its launch of the Culinary Hub of Providence, or CHOP, located on Washington Street on the first floor of the Providence Public Library.
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