About Us

During a three-year trip to Jamaica, Melanie observed that many persons she encountered from, various Caribbean islands could not prepare a decent, hearty meal. Upon returning to Barbados, she combined her love of cooking with her ability to explain and lead to start children cooking classes in the kitchen of her St. Philip home on Saturday, July 7th, 2018 under the name of “Melanie Trotman School of Cooking.”

Students comprised of children ages seven to fourteen. These classes not only taught students cooking and baking skills, but also kitchen safety, food safety and how to attend to simple cuts and burns which might occur in the kitchen.

Overall, Melanie strived to make her students less dependent on their parents to prepare meals. As interest in the school grew, the decision was made to relocate the school to the parish of St. Michael. The school was officially relocated November 1st, 2019. The school continued its Saturday children’s classes and even added additional days during the week. In June 2020 the school held its first adult’s cooking class, called Caribbean Cooking, Part I. Shortly following this the school expanded to adult doughnut-making classes. In October 2020, Melanie found that the business needed a change and so renamed and rebranded the under the name “Accent Kitchen.” Accent Kitchen aims to make children and adults alike independent and skilled in the culinary arts while maintaining a family-like relationship with all of its students.

To assist in the personal culinary development of local Barbadians, the school launched its New Year, New Skill initiative. With this initiative, the school began to offer new evening classes for adults in January 2021.