Emma's Torch in The New York Times

A Job and Community Transform Refugees’ Lives

The restaurant that Emma’s Torch runs in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, advertises its mission plainly in the window: “Empowering refugees through culinary education.” The people working at this restaurant are refugees, including asylum seekers and survivors of human trafficking, and are part of the organization’s 11-week culinary training program, which pays its apprentices, who must be legally qualified to work in the United States, a living wage as they learn to work in the food industry….read more