Cooking up a business from home: Turn your passion for food into a living

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Escape the drudgery with some tasty ideas; three food entrepreneurs share their experiences on running cooking classes, making cheese wedding cakes and writing a food newsletter from home

Ciara Fennessy: 'A couple nights a week, a group of eight to 14 people sit around my island.' Photograph: Alan Rowlette

The classes cost €50 per head, or €20 for an online class. She also hosts corporate events and develops recipes for food brands.Israel’s bombing of Gaza knocks shine off Starmer’s leadership of LabourCooking eight dishes is challenging, so preparation is key. “Each class takes about 10 hours to get ready for,” she says. “Most of the prepping is done during the day so I don’t waste valuable time chopping ingredients on the night.

“There are no school bags or toys lying around. But the kids have never known any different, so they’ve never had to get used to me running a business downstairs. They just know anything they bring down goes back upstairs. It’s quite a sound-proofed house too, so if we have a noisy gang in, they sleep through it all.”

She set up her kitchen and office in a portable cabin at her new home in Freshford last year. “My biggest priority in planning the kitchen was for a lot of counter space, to allow me to prepare grazing boards and single-serve graze cups,” she says. But she also wanted a nice place to work. “It’s a calm space, very soothing, neutral, rustic and it’s a very nice space to work in. I have my yoga mat out here and I do a bit of yoga before I start work. It’s my Zen space.

He is fascinated by the impact of good design in kitchens. “This summer I was invited to do public dinners in restaurants in New York, Berlin, Bangkok and Iceland and each time I learned a lot about kitchen environments,” he says.

 

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