Jessamyn waldmann rodriguez biography books
Jessamyn Waldman Rodriguez is an American social entrepreneur, educator, and hospitality executive..
Jessamyn Waldman Rodriguez is an American social entrepreneur, educator, and hospitality executive.
Jessamyn Waldman Rodriguez is the founder and CEO of Hot Bread Kitchen an innovative and successful bakery-based social enterprise in New York City. The Toronto native, who ended up in New York working for a UN agency, combined a love of cooking with a commitment to improve the lives of immigrant women into a job training organization that bakes all manner of breads from around the world and sells them all around New York.
Housed in Harlem’s La Marqueta, Hot Bread Kitchen is also an incubator, and rents commercial space to new businesses started by immigrant women, many of whom trained right there.
Rodriguez and her organization became known to GFR this fall with the publication of her (and its) new book, The Hot Bread Kitchen Cookbook.
The book is a comprehensive compilation of simple breads from around the world, from Ethopian injera to Domican Corn Bread and just about everytig else in between. It also tells the story of Hot Bread Kitchen and the compelling stories of ma
