Does cooking for home schooled children count? I am going into my fourth year of home schooling, and when we first started, we were so green we made spinach look yellow.
We have co-ops, where parents offer to teach things they, like, love, have a passion for or are knowledgeable about. I raised my hand and chose cooking. I am no dubbed as the Cooking Lady, and have a shirt to prove it. Some of these children don't even know my real name, they just know me as the Cooking Lady (And trust me, I don't mind).
I teach anywhere form 3-4 classes per semester, and only teach elementary ages and middle schoolers. I had some respect issues with the Teenagers and no longer teach that age group. One bad apple does spoil the whole bunch girl.
So, do I cook professionally? No, but I do hope to instill into these children the love of cooking. And the only thing I want is...for one day, 5...10...15 years down the road, when these people are cooking with their wives, husbands, or any family member. Is that they stop for a split second because something hits them with familiarity and they say. "Oh my, I remember the Cooking Lady teaching us this when I was a kid."
No more, no less.