Excerpt From Brigid Washington’s “Salt, Sweat and Steam”
By Brigid Ransome Washington Published May 4, 2026 Updated May 4, 2026 Two years into studying at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y., I still felt adrift. Attending had been a leap — I’d left behind my home in Trinidad and a relationship — and, while some of the institute’s rules and…