Chefs Jess Faulkner and Sam Glenn have bonded over their passion for food and their past experience with homelessness. Now, they’re hosting a community food drive.
SUMTER, S.C. — Two Sumter chefs are teaming up to host a community food drive, drawing on their own experiences with homelessness to help those around them.
“The house just filled with the smell of baking bread, and it’s just one of the most comforting smells to me,” Jess Faulkner said, reflecting on her childhood.
Faulkner grew up baking bread with her mom.
“Her and I would stay home, and she would just bake loaves of bread. We wouldn’t buy it because she would just bake it,” Faulkner said.
Now, she’s turned that hobby into a career as a chef working from her kitchen. When she moved to Sumter from Virginia, Faulkner said she realized something about her new community.
“I was just really surprised to see such a large homeless population here,” she …