For the first time in my life, I was at school at 8am. O.K. Maybe it was a little after 8am that I arrived at Dorsey High School, in South Los Angeles, after getting lost and driving too far south. I met Daphne Bradford, a multi-media instructor, in the hallway, and we walked passed a long line of students waiting to sign in late. She took me to the cooking classroom, and we walked in on a group of seniors retrieving their cookbooks from the rack. The kitchen was big, stainless steel stretching across half the room, with rows of machinery on the counter-tops and hanging pans lining the walls.
This large room is the home of Dorsey High School's Culinary Arts Program; the class where Miss Marzette teaches her students how to cook, how to serve, and how to run a business. It's much more complicated than traditional "Home Ec," especially since the students added a dab of multi-media talent into the mix. Now they spend their Saturday's writing, filming and editing their own online cooking show, "Cooking Live with Dorsey High."
Listen to the full story on Intersections: The South Los Angeles Reporting Project.
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