chef Marcella via dollar joins us now author of familiar an Emmy nominated celebrity chef former

a food network host now doing her own thing as a as a complete entrepreneur. Marcella great

to see you thank you for having me and you got this brand new book out we'll prompted this to

writing this mid actually not mid pandemic closer to the beginning that pandemic like a lot of

planet earth all of my projects just kind of ended productions ended partnerships were put on

whole there was a scary time and I decided to go online and teach cooking class it's basically

just to kind of keep myself busy and crazy at zoom with my sister godina and it blew up we were

getting 1300 students per class from around the world it was pandemic so we would get not just

a person to square zoom square but we would get entire families and we would eat dinner together

the thousands of people in my sister so it was like the most amazing thing and that's how the book

came to be and you said that people would pay to get out to get on that was my job during pandemic

they got a very detailed document sometimes I would write up 10 pages detailing the recipes

where to buy the ingredients I would give them links to the ingredients I would explain the ingredients

and they got the cooking class and then they would get a recording of the class as well that

they could keep and download and keep forever well and just worked out better than you could have

imagined it became it became this really huge thing and we I eventually was able to sell this

great book proposal and now it's a I can't believe it's like a book sitting in front of you right

now do they shit did your recipes and the classes taken to a how did it take into account that

people weren't there alive they were they alive but they weren't with you yes did you have to change

how you did things no great question I had to I had to take advantage of the fact that zoom or

that the gave me the capability of seeing all of my students so I would literally be like is

this concept good with you can I move forward give me a thumbs up and I would look at the squares

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