Barbara Storper

from a fiscal agent.

So that allows us sometimes to get grants.

But the best thing we ever did was realize that we could partner with organizations like healthcare organizations, supermarket companies, that kind of thing.

And they would sponsor us and bring us to schools in their region.

Therefore, schools wouldn't have to pay, which is really the biggest obstacle against us doing these programs.

In our heyday, which was more like 2010 to 2016 or 17, we were doing really well, really big staff, lots of

We had four vans touring.

And it was so much work, though.

And with COVID, we ended up really downsizing.

We did live stream shows, which were amazing because they were so much easier.

But now schools don't want live stream.

And I'm getting up in years, and I'm trying to figure out how can I keep food play alive somehow in this day and age?

Because in 1982, things are pretty different.

Yeah.

Well, back then we were our revenue was probably one and a half million dollars.

And we had a staff of like 12 people and we had four vans and each van had like three performers and stage managers.

And now it's – I think it's become a labor of love quite frankly.

Exactly.

Well, you know, Brazil has the best dietary guidelines of any country in the globe because it's all about sustainability and it's about whole foods and it doesn't have the influence of the food marketers.

Right.