The Stabroek Business’ ongoing journalistic interventions into the ‘goings on’ in the lives of the proprietors of many of the country’s micro and small businesses continues to reveal that even as the business environment changes some of them are falling back on past pursuits in order to see themselves through the current challenges.
Some years after hanging up her apron, so to speak, Sonya Benn–Jordan is back in the game, doing what she loves best, baking and cooking. So too is her trading name, My Gifted Hands.
She runs the resurgent Gifted Hands enterprise from the Kitchen of her N Half Lot 1, Den Amstel, West Coast Demerara, turning out a variety of pastries and cakes, challenging her customers to take her word for it that she still has what it takes to ‘deliver the goods.’ On the basis of customer responses Sonya believes that she has passed that test.