Claus Meyer’s Brownsville Culinary School is Officially Accepting Applications
When assessing the progress of upcoming restaurants, plywood or butcher paper being ceremoniously removed from the windows is generally a good sign. But the best indication that Claus Meyer’s Brownsville project is finally coming into the home stretch? They just started accepting applications for their culinary school.
Tentatively slated to debut later this fall, it’s the most essential branch of an ambitious complex, which will also include a full service restaurant, a café and bakery, a coffee roastery, a production kitchen and teaching kitchen, and a flexible space to be alternately used as a classroom, demonstration staging area, and community gathering place. In fact, it’s the guiding force of Meyer’s Melting Pot Foundation, an organization that provides tuition-free culinary training to inmates and other marginalized youth, and help securing fulfilling, long-term employment.
Claus Meyer may have wowed the world with Noma, and brought fancy food courts to Grand Central station and rustic Danish baked goods to Williamsburg, but we have a pretty good feeling this will be his most momentous enterprise yet.
Applications can be directed to Jorge Collazo at jc@meltingpotfoundation.org
Calls are also accepted at: 908 956 3151
For more information, visit www.meltingpotfoundation.org