{"id":173653,"date":"2026-03-24T19:59:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T19:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/173653\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T19:59:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T19:59:55","slug":"culinary-program-gives-bronx-students-hands-on-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/173653\/","title":{"rendered":"Culinary program gives Bronx students hands-on experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some charter school students in New York City are going beyond the cafeteria line, they\u2019re helping cook the meals themselves.<\/p>\n<p>At KIPP NYC College Prep High School in the Bronx, student interns in the culinary program prepare healthy meals from scratch and serve them at 14 KIPP schools across the city.<\/p>\n<p>Students rotate through prep, production and service, gaining hands-on experience in a professional-style kitchen while learning about nutrition and teamwork. The program aims to teach valuable skills that extend beyond the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Ioli, senior managing director of the KIPP NYC Culinary Team, and Ramatoulaye Diallo, one of the student participants, joined Rocco Vertuccio Sunday to discuss the initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the full interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some charter school students in New York City are going beyond the cafeteria line, they\u2019re helping cook the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,7473,9,24,63,5252,129,131,130,200,4181],"class_list":["post-173653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-ctv","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-rocco-vertuccio","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-vod","tag-weekend-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}