The New York Times reports that La Cocina, in San Francisco, is no ordinary operation. The chefs are all women, most of them immigrants, working side by side to to learn to start their own food businesses and, in some cases, lifting themselves out of poverty. “There’s an entrepreneurial gene,” said Valeria Perez Ferreiro, executive director of La Cocina. “And we are finding amazing entrepreneurs who are already cooking or have a product that is so promising that it deserves to be seen in the market and that we think has a chance for success.” (Source: The New York Times)