Tech Students Get Cooking for Local Soup Kitchen

The scent of garlic, onions and tomatoes was in the air again this week, as Chef Stanley Rupinski’s Tech Center students on the Putnam/Northern Westchester BOCES campus prepared an Italian feast for patrons of the Salvation Army Soup Kitchen in Peekskill.

 “We’ve been doing this for about 10 years,” Rupinski said, “and the students really give it their all.” Both Culinary and National Technical Honor Society students helped prepare the meal.

 Leyona Brito, a Peekskill High School senior in the Culinary program, said, as she was chopping onions for the sauce, “It really makes you feel great to make good food for the people who go to the soup kitchen.”

 Nick Ambos, a National Technical Honor Society student from Croton who will attend the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture in the fall, said, “I really felt it would be a great use of time, helping to feed people.”  “It’s an awesome cause!” echoed Victoria Adamo from Yorktown.

 The meal, which consisted of pasta with marinara sauce, meatballs, garlic bread and salad, will feed approximately 75 guests at the soup kitchen.