My name is Aimee Schulhauser, and I am the founder and CEO of Tangerine: The Food Bar and
Schoolhaus Culinary Arts.
We offer over 300 different kinds of classes here at Schoolhaus. They're typically three hours long,
and we've been having classes every night, pretty much, for the last six years.
When COVID hit, Schoolhaus basically shut down. And so our revenues went literally to zero overnight.
With that in mind, we decided to adjust a little bit and go online.
"Welcome to House Guest, the pandemic version of Schoolhaus.
We are in my own kitchen. I figured if everyone is working from home, i'm going to work from home too."
i've always said that we get together over food, but not necessarily over the making of it.
and there's some magic that happens in there
The classes are an hour long, and people are given the recipes and the shopping list ahead of time
and then they login, and we cook dinner together.
We have the classes between 5 and 6. It was built for a serving of four people,
And so they can make dinner for their family, I can make dinner for myself, and you can ask questions
of a real life Chef.
I loved it so much that we're going to keep offering them at least once a week going forward
and the feedback has been phenomenal. We're able to reach a wider audience with our online classes
and technically anyone around the world could take them, but it was nice to see old friends again
who had moved away and wanted to join us, those who live in rural communities, and those who wanted to
get together with family virtually and still have an activity to do.
The joy is still there, the creativity is still there
"Add a little bit of acid to it- all those flavours are gonna pop."
This has definitely been a bright spot during the pandemic.
Overcoming adversity is one of the strengths here in our province, and a pandemic will highlight that
like nothing else.
