With Christmas Day now exactly a week away, Debbie Houston is still hoping that a surge of late orders over the extended Christmas season can turn her fortunes around, even if in a modest way.
Her ten-year-old Glitzy Glamour and Culinary School has taken a proverbial pounding since the coronavirus pandemic descended upon Guyana in March this year and which is almost certain to cast something of a ‘damper’ on Christmas. Like others who ‘spread joy’ through their culinary skills, however, Debbie appears to hold the view that the spirit of the Yuletide season could make the difference and that the adage about the way to people’s hearts being through their stomachs still holds good.
In an industry, the lucrativeness of which is accentuated at this time of year, Debbie is keen to, for the umpteenth time, lay her credentials literally on the table.