Catholic Charities of Louisville's Common Table program is providing job training in the field of culinary arts.

Its goal is to reduce poverty, provide instruction and feed neighbors all at the same time.

We've been around for about eight years.

Common Table was originally brought to conception because we saw a need for hospitality workers.

And then we also understood about providing a skill set that we could help individuals become self-sufficient.

A lot of different people enroll in common table from all different walks of life, many different goals.

Some people come because they need employment.

Other people, they have dreams and goals and aspirations of entrepreneur viewership.

So the majority of our students are single parents who come from a lower income background.

And so they come here looking for opportunity and looking for access to this field.

So they go through at eight weeks of basic culinary arts and job training.

And we want to prepare them to go work in a restaurant kitchen environment.

If students are interested in entrepreneurship, we connect them with other organizations once they complete our program that can help them reach those goals.

I've been cooking all my life since I was two, didn't have the full skills, and in a common table they teach you the of culinary skills that you don't normally possess and also how to marry foods together and also work with others in a big catering environment.

Because when you see these big stoves and it kind of be it can be intimidating for a lot of people.

But once you get in there and you learn the cooking techniques and when you see it jump in and you take your flavors and learn how to put them together.

You have to try planning something.

You have to try.

We offer a six week subscription where each week you get a quart of fresh meat soup and a loaf of artisan bread.

Soup and bread is our main source to support this program so students don't have to pay anything monetarily to come through this program.

And the students work on producing, and it gives them an opportunity to practice and hone those skills that we learn.

So the knife skills with all the dicing and the chopping.

How do you properly prepare and then cooling off the soup, properly packaged in there, getting it ready for delivery.

Today we have chicken tortilla.

Oh, yeah.

Seeing smiles on people's face when they get these soups and the response from the quality of the soups that we put out.

It encourages me to want to do more with the food and bring more to the community.

With our food programs, the number.

That you will multiply by all of your ingredients and recipes.

We had a young lady who graduated our program, but we were able to place her with our apprenticeship with Texas Roadhouse corporate office, working directly with our executive chef.

So she just completed her one year apprenticeship and they've offered her a full time job with a excellent wage.

And she's just doing amazing.

And we have lots of stories like that.

If you got a desire for cooking, come in a common table.

And once you get that common table knowledge in you, your cooking life will change, period.

It's always a need there.

People always are going to eat right.

So there's always an opportunity.

I can go anywhere in the world with my knives and work.

Yeah, that's a good line.

That's quite common.

Table has a job placement rate of over 80% with many graduates second careers at a high end.

Kitchens all around Louisville.