On a spiritual level, the journey of 50Kitchen is a lot longer than the 710 miles between Dorchester, Massachusetts and Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Executive chef and owner Anthony Caldwell says divine providence got him from where he was to where he is today. And where he was, was prison.
“I didn’t have the perfect life,” Caldwell said. “But prison, in the long run, was a good decision, because it’s where I learned how to cook.”
Caldwell’s kitchen career began as little more than a way of earning enough good time to get his sentence reduced. There were plenty of other jobs available, but “those weren’t the jobs I needed in order for God to get me where I am now,” Caldwell said….