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Pairing Low-income Students With Top Chefs

By John Birdsall

East Bay Express | June 27, 2007

The nonprofit Bread Project teaches baking, cooking, and job-search skills to disadvantaged Bay Area residents and tries to help them land jobs -- and the result is inspiringly delicious.

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If one mayor represented all of Alameda and Contra Costa counties, that person's 2.5 million constituents would live in the country's fourth-largest city. And just as these East Bay counties are very different from the rest of the San Francisco...

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