CHICAGO -- One by one on Monday, they approached the front of the room at the Center on Halsted in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood, glowing as they received a certificate of completion. They were graduating from the center's Silver Fork culinary arts and job readiness program, an intensive 12-week course catered to preparing the unemployed and underemployed to pursue, or restart, a career in the hospitality industry.
Some nine months ago, chef Dan Smith, former co-host of the Food Network's "Party Line With the Hearty Boys," took over the culinary arts program and overhauled the curriculum. Smith, who with his partner Steve McDonagh owns the Lakeview restaurant Hearty and an affiliated catering business, also taught the course once a week. He said the class gave him "hours of joy," thanks to the commitment displayed by the program's participants.
"They really had it together as a class, with the passion they brought in to learn and with the various experiences they had brought in," Smith said. "This was a group that was raring to go and really, really talented."
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