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Mastering the Kitchen, Empowering the Soul<\/h6>

About Our School<\/h3>
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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 \u201cMelanie Trotman School of Cooking.\u201d<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s classes and even added additional days during the week. In June 2020 the school held its first adult\u2019s 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 \u201cAccent Kitchen.\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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About the Owner<\/h3>
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Melanie Trotman<\/a><\/h3>\n\t\t\t
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I am Melanie Trotman, the owner of Accent Kitchen and a young entrepreneur. I was born in the beautiful island of Barbados and raised in the community at Allen View St. Thomas. <\/p>\n

My passion for cooking started at the age of eight when I found myself standing in my kitchen with a bag of English potatoes in one hand, and a bottle of oil, box of matches and some Maggie cubes in the other hand. I will never forget the day! <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t

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