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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Ivy Tech culinary students who lost training opportunities as schools and restaurants closed amid the coronavirus pandemic have turned to helping a food rescue organization cook and prepare meals from food donated by shuttered eateries.

Rather than letting their food inventory go to waste, restaurants, caterers and educational institutions are donating their meat, fruits and vegetables to Cultivate Culinary, a nonprofit devoted to ending the cycle of poverty and hunger.

"So many of them, all these institutions, went through their inventories of food and donated it to Cu...