Circle City Prep to host Black History Month bake sale

Circle City Prep’s (CCP) Culinary Club have been preparing for the school’s Black History Month bake sale. In collaboration with The Patachou Foundation, CCP’s bake sale is an opportunity for students to use their cooking skills to learn about entrepreneurship and strengthen their community from within. “How have we employed our talents to help ourselves, to help our communities? Let’s focus on the legacy of entrepreneurship. Let’s focus on the legacy of self-reliance and determination to employ our talents to serve our communities and ourselves,” said Shannon Mitchell, culinary director of The Patachou Foundation. Mitchell worked with the culinary club at CCP to develop the idea and format of the bake sale, which was inspired by the story of Georgia Gilmore. Gilmore was a cook and activist from Montgomery, Alabama, who used her cooking talents to help fund and feed the Montgomery bus boycott activists. “You don’t hear Miss Gilmore’s name as often as Rosa Parks, but her actions were just as critical,” said Julia Turshen, author of the cookbook “Feed the Resistance,” in a 2017 article in the New York Times. “She literally fed the movement. She sustained it.” The CCP Bake Sale is about more than cooking. It...