How did the Globetrotters Restaurant Cooking Workshops Come About?
It started with my kids wanting to “help out” in the kitchen, especially when I did not have any domestic help living in the
“Great!” I thought. “This is a wonderful opportunity to train them”, I thought. However, I found myself getting impatient with my 4 year old doing things the wrong way, making a mess, and my 2 year old getting into everything whenever I so much as blinked! I felt stressed not having enough time to check that what he was doing was age-appropriate.
Dinner would take too long to prepare-
I loved having them with me, learning how to help in the kitchen, being part of a team. I didn’t want them to grow up the way I did- thinking that used cups got up and washed and dried themselves before going back into the cupboards themselves. It was a rude shock when I lived abroad and found that whatever cup I put down would stay put until someone picked them up and washed them! Neither did I want them to be pushed out of the kitchen to watch TV while food was being prepared, as my English friend did.
My kids absolutely loved cooking- it was such an adventure for them. A friend shared with me how in
Back in Singapore and after the birth of Globetrotters Restaurant
A restaurant like ours seemed the perfect place to start cooking workshops for kids- where everything could be set up in a child-friendly way. No stress, no frustrations. I tried it out a few times on my own kids and improved the operating procedures so that their needs could be met. As a homeschooling mother, understanding children of that age was easy.
Our staff were initially hesitant. The catalyst came when the French Association asked us whether we could run a workshop for them. They said they would be happy to be the guinea pigs!
And so the Globetrotters Cooking Workshops were born. A time and place where you can celebrate the fun of cooking together with those you love. As I write this, I watch the excited children enter their class, dress up in an apron and a chef’s hat and the proud parents take photos of their children. There is an adorable father and son pair, and a number of happy mothers enjoying rolling the dough next to their children who have their own sets of ingredients.
The instructor is gentle and shows by doing- the kids are so engrossed in what they are doing- the concentration shows in their faces as they knead the dough. Then there is the satisfaction of eating what they have made.
This is a Globetrotters moment- the love, the bonding. This is celebrating the good things in life!
Globetrotters- Celebrating the good things in life!
Family ~ Friends ~ Food ~ Fun ~ Fellowship
Alternatively, we also developed Bob Pizza Decorating (Decorating ready-made bases only) and Sundae Decorating available everyday at our restaurant.
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