This year’s 29th annual C-CAP awards breakfast provided over $485,813 in scholarship money to students across the wider Los Angeles area. The awards ranged from full ride culinary scholarships to prestigious culinary schools in the country to partial tuition or cash. And there was fascinating news this year.
The fascinating news is that others will use the money to further their education after high school in other areas. As Program Coordinator, Gail Carney noted, Gail Carney, on behalf of C-CAP noted, “in whatever way the student choses to use the tuition money, it all helps to shape future generations of students that will play a big role in society.”
It is wonderful to be a part of an organization so valuable and needed for the community. I am so proud to note that Sri Sambangi, publisher of Local Food Eater was a donor of a $1500 scholarship in the name of our friend and pioneer food writer, Barbara Hansen, who has been a contributor to the website.
Gisselle Rivera of Banning High School received a Culinary Institute of New York at Monroe College Full-Tuition Schoolship ($67,392) with a $1500 Barbara Hansen Culinary scholarship donation by Sridhar Sambangi. Gisselle was matched up because she loves to write and Barbara was a pioneering journalist for Los Angeles Times in ethnic writing.
I was privileged to be able to add this day, “you are so valued aas chefs to develop your own style and cuisine, and still we need writers like Barbara Hansen who are so valuable in connecting you and your work with the public.”
Food for thought in academia was in good company by the Jonathan Club’s breakfast buffet. The Club trains and hires C-Cap students regularly.
Board members, teachers and students all had a change to talk with each other. The students introduced themselves and how C-CAP became meaningful to them during the program.
For our coverage on C-CAP ranging all the way back to a 2015 field trip, please see //localfoodeater.com/c-cap-joins-ventura-farm-days-tours-and-2000-vistors-by-gerry-furth-sides/
For more information about the organization, please see: @ccaplosangeles
Gerry Furth-Sides 
Barbara Hansen 
Chef-owner Alain Cohen 
Roberta Deen 
Jose Martinez 
Nivedita Basu 