Life Lessons Served Hot

• By Alison McSherry
• Roll Call Staff
• June 11, 2009, Midnight

After school most days, the basement of Calvary Baptist Church in Chinatown is abuzz with the sounds of vegetables being chopped, recipes being read aloud and young people laughing. Around dinnertime the smell of a fresh-cooked meal begins wafting from the parish kitchen as the high school students pull the results from the oven.